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documented, little is known about their interaction with employees' mobility behaviour. This paper contributes to this research … area by analyzing the interaction between job mobility and entry wage differentials using German administrative data. The …, directly from employer to employer as well as indirectly via an unemployment spell. In addition they are more likely to change …
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, overall, education and labor market experience accumulated in the home countries of the immigrants receive significantly lower … immigrants across origin countries. Finally, imperfect human capital transferability appears to be a major factor in explaining … the wage differential between natives and immigrants. …
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Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...
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immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence natives? sentiments towards immigrants. It …. Natives in countries with mostly economic migrants are relatively more concerned about loosing jobs to immigrants. However …, the results also suggest that natives may view immigration more favorably if immigrants are selected according to the …
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Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant?s country in the host region. Using Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin-village-specific variables on migrants? location choice.
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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …
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Using data for the 1990?s, this paper examines the role of sheepskin effects in the returns to education for Japan. Our estimations indicate that sheepskin effects explain about 50% of the total returns to schooling. We further find that sheepskin effects are only important for workers in small...
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Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566523
This paper addresses the question: Why and where do immigrants cluster? We examine the relative importance and …
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federal employment agency and data of real estate prices, we evaluate the impact of neighborhood unemployment on individual … neighborhood unemployment on the individual employment probability. …
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