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Educational Attainment and Labor Market Performance : An Analysis of Immigrants in France

Akgüc, Mehtap - 2015

Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less educated than the native born and that these differences...

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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles When Migrations are Temporary

Dustmann, Christian - 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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The Effect of Attitudes Toward Migrants on Migrant Skill Composition

Avdiu, Besart - 2018

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants can reduce the average skill composition. The … hypothesis, I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …

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Computer Skills, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives and Immigrants

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

Using data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing in Australia, this paper investigates the determinants, and consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are...

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An introduction to the economics of immigration in OECD countries

Edo, Anthony; Ragot, Lionel; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020

practices regarding the selection and integration of new migrants affect labour market, fiscal and social/cultural outcomes …

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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market

Beyer, Robert - 2017

This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...

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Is quick formal access to the labor market enough? : refugees' labor market integration in Belgium

Lens, Dries; Marx, Ive; Vujić, Sunčica - 2018

and labor migrants of the same arrival cohort. The analysis shows that refugees take significantly longer to enter their …

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Does migration motive matter for migrants' employment outcomes? : the case of Belgium

Lens, Dries; Marx, Ive; Vujić, Sunčica - 2018

Belgian LFS Ad Hoc Module on the labour market situation of migrants and their immediate descendants, we compare the … employment outcomes of labour migrants (with and without a job prior to migration), family reunion migrants, student migrants and … refugees with those of the native-born. In line with previous studies, we establish that refugees and family reunion migrants …

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Elementary facts about immigration in Italy : what do we know about immigration and its impact?

Mariani, Rama Dasi; Pasquini, Alessandra; Rosati, Furio … - 2020

The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...

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Employment gaps between refugees, migrants and natives : evidence from Austrian Register based labour market data

Jestl, Stefan; Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sebastian; … - 2019

-humanitarian migrants, European third country immigrants and natives. We draw on a register based panel dataset covering the complete labour … unconditional gap between refugees and natives declines to 30 percentage points, similar to the one of non-humanitarian migrants …

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