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Educational mismatch : are high-skilled immigrants really working at high-skilled jobs and the price they pay if they aren't?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also...

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An explanation for the lower payoff to schooling for immigrants in the Canadian labour market

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are offered with findings for the US. The paper uses the Overeducation/Required...

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Citizenship, co-ethnic populations and employment probabilities of immigrants in Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2009

Over the last decades, Sweden has liberalized its citizenship policy by reducing the required number of years of residency to five for foreign citizens and only two for Nordic citizens. Dual citizenship has been allowed since 2001. During the same period, immigration patterns by country of birth...

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The economic situation of first- and second-generation immigrants in France, Germany, and the UK

Algan, Yann; Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; … - 2009

A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK have all become, perhaps unwittingly, countries with...

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Labour market entry of migrants in Germany : does cultural diversity matter?

Haas, Anette; Damelang, Andreas - 2007

Der Beitrag analysiert den Arbeitsmarktzugang von jugendlichen Migranten in Deutschland nach Abschluss ihrer Lehrzeit … zwischen Türken, Bürgern des früheren Jugoslawien, Migranten aus Ländern der EU15 und anderen Migranten unterschieden. Diese … in den ersten Arbeitsmarkt besteht, wohingegen sich Migranten aus den EU15 Ländern in dieser Hinsicht nicht von Deutschen …

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Mass migration and seasonality evidence on Moldova's labour exodus

Görlich, Dennis (contributor); … - 2006

. The main group of seasonal migrants are less educated men from rural areas. -- Migration decision ; Seasonal migration …

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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009

the labor market reintegration, patterns of job search, and reservation wages across unemployed migrants and natives in … Germany. Our results indicate that separated migrants have a relatively slow reintegration into the labor market. We explain … moderate, yet still above the level which would imply similar employment probabilities as other groups of migrants. …

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Employment convergence of immigrants in the European Union

Hámori, Szilvia - 2009

In light of the importance of immigrants' labour market integration in the host countries, this study examines the employment convergence between foreign-born and native-born in the European Union (EU), by gender and broad region of origin - distinguishing between immigrants born within and...

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Are immigrants paid less for education?

Anastassova, Lubomira - 2010

This paper is on measuring the gap in returns to education between foreign-born and native workers in France, Germany, and Austria and investigates the extent to which this gap can be explained by a mis-match between the actual and the years of schooling typical for a given occupation. The...

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Source country characteristics and immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions

Kırdar, Murat G. - 2010

purchasing power parity (ppp) and the wage ratio between the host and source countries. It is shown that in theory immigrants may …

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