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The Making of Entrepreneurs in Germany : Are Native Men and Immigrants Alike?

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021

This paper uses a state of the art three-stage technique to identify the characteristics of the self-employed immigrant and native men in Germany and to understand their underlying drive into self-employment. Employing data from the German Socioeconomic Panel 2000 release we find that...

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What Makes an Entrepreneur and Does it Pay? Native Men, Turks, and Other Migrants in Germany

Constant, Amelie F.; Shachmurove, Yochanan; Zimmermann, … - 2021

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to Turks, since they are the largest immigrant group with a strong entrepreneurial tradition, and the self-employed Turks in Germany represent about 70% of all Turkish entrepreneurs...

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Entrepreneurial Ventures and Wage Differentials between Germans and Immigrants

Constant, Amelie F.; Shachmurove, Yochanan - 2021

This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that affect the sorting of individuals into self-employment and then we investigate whether self-employment has a differential effect on the wages of individual workers and can lead...

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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the skill mix of immigrants : evidence from Switzerland 1990-2010

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2017

An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in national labour markets. In recent decades, the introduction of information and communication technology [ICT] fuelled the demand for highly skilled workers at the expense of lower...

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Limits to Wage Growth : Understanding the Wage Divergence between Immigrants and Natives

Jain, Apoorva - 2017

This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation by modeling the differences in the efficiency of human...

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Chapter 25. Immigrants in Israel

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1363-1420). 2015

enter the country also expanded in the last decade. While immigration policy legislation towards Jewish migrants was formed … soon after its independence, Israel still lacks a coherent immigration policy towards labor migrants and asylum seekers. …

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Immigrants and the Portuguese labor market : threat or advantage?

Ghasemi, Parisa; Teixeira, Paulino; Carreira, Carlos - 2024

In this study, we investigate the impact of the share of the foreign labor force on the wage of native workers in Portugal between 2010 and 2019 using linked employer-employee data from Quadros de Pessoal. By leveraging job characteristics from the O*NET skill taxonomy, we create more...

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Winners and losers among skilled migrants : the case of post-accession Polish migrants to the UK

Kaczmarczyk, Paweł; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2015

We test if migration leads to increased wages. We take the example of Polish migrants to the United Kingdom and focus … on the mobility of well educated Poles. We offer insights into absolute and relative change in wages of the migrants … are negligible or even insignificant for the highly skilled migrants from Poland to the UK. These results hold for both …

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The Complementarity of Language and Other Human Capital : Immigrant Earnings in Canada

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2021

This paper analyzes the effects of language practice on earnings among adult male immigrants in Canada using the 1991 Census. Earnings are shown to increase with schooling, pre-immigration experience and duration in Canada, as well as with proficiency in the official languages (English and...

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Does background matter? : the transmission of human capital from a planned to a market economy

Gang, Ira N.; Stuart, Robert C. - 1999

We analyze the early U.S. economic achievement of former Soviet citizens entering the United States during the period 1979 through 1985. Using the Soviet Interview project (SIP) data, we identify components of human capital acquired in the former Soviet Union (FSU), relating these to labor force...

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