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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016

The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...

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Settlement and migration patterns among immigrants in Norway

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2014

and their families show strong and positive relationship between domestic migration and regional employment change due to … and partly negative relationship between migration across regions and regional employment change. They rather move away … and significant towards a weak and non-significant relationship between domestic migration and regional employment change. …

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"Tongue tide" : the economics of language offers important lessons for how Europe can best integrate migrants

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2016

This policy analysis discusses issues regarding the migration to Europe of large numbers of immigrants and refugees who, on arrival, do not know their host country's language. It reviews problems of economic integration into the labor market, the consequences of the formation of immigrant...

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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship : evidence from a representative immigrant survey

Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-25

Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? We use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences to …) between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs, and correct for variation in the use of self-evaluation scales between migrants …

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Immigration, cultural distance and natives' attitudes towards immigrants : evidence from Swiss voting results

Brunner, Beatrice; Kuhn, Andreas - 2014

We combine community-level outcomes of 27 votes about immigration issues in Switzerland with census data to estimate the effect of immigration on natives' attitudes towards immigration. We apply an instrumental variable approach to take potentially endogenous locational choices into account, and...

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Receiving countries' perspectives : the case of Sweden

Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2014

Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common labour market of EES/EU in 1994, no transitional rules introduced at the enlargement of European Union in 2004 and 2007, and opening up for labour migration from non-EES/EU...

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Immigration and crime : new empirical evidence from European victimization data

Nunziata, Luca - 2014

We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the European Social Survey, the Labour Force Survey and...

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Economic preferences and attitudes of the unemployed : are natives and second generation migrants alike?

Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2010

natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … the two groups mainly in terms of risk attitudes and positive reciprocity. Second generation migrants have a significantly … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …

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Reservation wages of first and second generation migrants

Constant, Amelie; Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2010

This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich … reservation wages increase from first to second generation migrants. Two extensions of the basic job search model, namely an …

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Economic and cultural gaps among foreign-born minorities in Spain

Rica, Sara de la; Ortega, Francesc - 2009

gap, early marriage, inter-ethnic marriage, fertility, female employment, command of Spanish, and social participation …

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