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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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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...

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The international circulation of elites : knowledge, entrepreneurial and political

Solimano, Andrés; Avanzini, Diego - 2010

affect international development. -- International migration ; entrepreneurial ; political migrants ; talent mobility …

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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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Cultural integration in Germany

Constant, Amelie; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation. Indicators which are supposed to capture cultural integration of immigrants are differences in marital behavior as...

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The working hours of immigrants in Germany : temporary versus permanent

Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - 2010

human capital theory and a household production model of migration where migrants may be temporary by choice and not because …Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating …, we explore how temporary migrants differ from permanent migrants in their labor supply decisions and behavior. Upon …

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Ethnic concentration and language fluency of immigrants in Germany

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - 2010

Studies that investigate the effect of the regional ethnic composition on immigrant outcomes have been complicated by the self-selection of ethnic minorities into specific neighbourhoods. We analyse the impact of own-ethnic concentration on the language proficiency of immigrants by exploiting...

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The effect of enclave residence on the labour force activities of immigrants in Canada

Tu, Jiong - 2010

It has been well documented that immigrants' clustering of residence in large cities has been associated with the creation of a number of ethnic enclaves. The intensive exposure to own-ethnic population could affect immigrant labour market involvement positively or negatively. However, no extant...

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