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Western Germany after the German reunification in 1989. We suspect that the gains or losses in subjective well-being after … migration are affected by the way migrants adapt to their new economic conditions, by with whom migrants compare themselves … migration on SWB, although it is strongly suppressed by dissatisfaction resulting from the comparison of migrants' income with …
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migrants experience worse labor market outcomes than other migrant groups, but current and potential migrants hold …
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migrants experience worse labor market outcomes than other migrant groups, but current and potential migrants hold …
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We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …
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We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …
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Most EaP migrants in Spain come from Ukraine, followed by, to a much lesser extent, Moldavia, Armenia, and Georgia …. Relative to other migrants, they are those who most recently arrived to Spain. Despite being considerably more educated than … natives and other migrants, they are less likely to work than natives and other migrants upon arrival to Spain. Using data …
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While much of the literature on immigrants' assimilation has focused on countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants and with flexible labor markets, very little is known on how immigrants adjust to other types of host economies. With its severe dual labor market, and an...
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Immigrants face higher barriers to entry into occupations that rely on social skills. As a result, they are less likely to pose a labor market threat to workers who hold social skill-intensive jobs in the recipient country. Using data from the 7th round of the European Social Survey and the...
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Using an immigrant assimilation framework, this paper develops a model of the occupational mobility of immigrants and tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical model generates hypotheses regarding a U-shaped pattern of...
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This paper analyses the employment experiences of the recent wave of Middle Eastern refugees (from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran) in the Austrian job market. The emphasis in this research was to investigate whether refugees experienced an initial (sharp) downgrade in their occupational...
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