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Do legal immigrants and natives compete in the labour market? Evidence from Catalonia

Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2010

competing with Latin American immigrants, and; iii) African-born immigrants are the group in the Catalan workforce that by far …

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Do Migrants Get Good Jobs? : New Migrant Settlement in Australia

Junankar, P. N. (Raja); Mahuteau, Stéphane - 2004

This paper investigates the ease with which recent immigrants to Australia from different countries and with different visa categories enter employment at an appropriate level to their prior education and experience in the source country. Unlike most of the earlier research in this field that...

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Labor Market Interactions Between Legal and Illegal Immigrants

Epstein, Gil S. - 2000

This paper looks at the situation of legal immigrants who employ illegal immigrants to provide them with various services. This enables the legal immigrants to allocate more time to other work, thereby increasing their earnings. Illegal immigrants employed by legal immigrants may specialize in...

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Migrant entrepreneurs and credit constraints under labour market discrimination

Frijters, Paul; Kong, Tao; Meng, Xin - 2011

prefer to have a salaried job but cannot find one; and divide salaried workers into want-to-be entrepreneurs and happy …-to-be salaried workers. Over 40 percent of migrant workers are either currently or want-to-be entrepreneurs. Both groups are very … similar in terms of risk taking preferences and network size. Want-to-be entrepreneurs however suffer from credit constraints …

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Workplace, human capital and ethnic determinants of sickness absence in Sweden, 1993 -2001

Bengtsson, Tommy; Scott, Kirk - 2008

This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...

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Immigrants in risky occupations

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2012

This chapter reviews the economics literature on immigrant-native differentials in occupational risk. It begins by briefly explaining the theory of compensating wage differentials. It then provides a more detailed discussion of the empirical evidence on the subject, which reaches several...

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Do immigrants displace native workers? Evidence from matched panel data

Martins, Pedro S.; Piracha, Matloob; Varejão, José - 2012

Using matched employer-employee data, we analyse the impact of immigrants on natives' employment in Portugal. Using different model specifications, we show that the natives and immigrants are 'complements' at most occupation levels, in the sense that they are jointly hired and fired. Controlling...

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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self- Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs

Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999

This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...

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Entrepreneurship and survival dynamics of immigrants to the US and their descendants

Georgarakos, Dimitris; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2007

Many studies have explored the determinants of entering into entrepreneurship and the differences in self-employment rates across racial and ethnic groups. However, very little is known about the survival in entrepreneurship of immigrants to the U.S. and their descendants. Employing data from...

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Segregation, entrepreneurship and work values: the case of France

Senik, Claudia; Verdier, Thierry - 2008

This paper studies the interaction between labor market integration, the evolution of work values and entrepreneurial capital inside minority communities. A simple model of labor market segmentation with ethnic capital and endogenous transmission of cultural values inside the minority group is...

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