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matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and … likelihood of being overeducated decreases for self-employed immigrants, with inconclusive results for selfemployed natives. The … results shed light on the extent to which immigrants adjust to labour market imperfections and barriers to employment and …
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This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household … immigrants and natives. Individual rates of wage convergence are found to be higher for immigrants who fled warfare zones, belong … contributes substantially to closing the wage gap with natives. The treatment effect is heterogeneous, favoring immigrants who are …
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Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at all. Using a unique database from a survey of young...
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Many governments encourage migrants to participate in volunteer activities as a stepping stone to labour market …-volunteering native candidates receive more than twice as many job interview invitations as non‐volunteering migrants, no unequal … treatment is found between natives and migrants when they reveal volunteer activities. …
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social networks by immigrants to find jobs has a significant impact on wages in both countries, the effect is positive in …The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their … may lose much of its explanatory power in other societies, where immigrants encounter different labor market conditions …
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of highly skilled young women and immigrants. Our results indicate a systemic wage gap for women, but not for male … immigrants. We find no evidence that female immigrants suffer from a double-negative effect of being disadvantaged twofold (in …
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Since ethnic clustering is common in Germany, a better understanding of its effects on the integration of immigrants … labour market outcome of first-generation immigrants in Germany is analysed empirically. It, thus, contributes to the … is benefi cial or detrimental for immigrants’ integration. In this paper, the effect of residential clustering on the …
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probability of immigrants, and for second or higher generation migrants, a positive impact of clustering on wages. … clustering on the labour market outcome of immigrants in Germany. Thereby, we use two measures for labour market integration: the … clear-cut answer on its effects on the integration of immigrants. In this paper, we study the effect of residential …
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The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in … responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from various origins, skills and tenure in the country vis-à-vis the natives, and how … it varied over the business cycle during the Great Recession. We show that immigrants in general have responded to …
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The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in … responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from various origins, skills and tenure in the country vis-à-vis the natives, and how … it varied over the business cycle during the Great Recession. We show that immigrants in general have responded to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110855