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Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants

Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021

In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...

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The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration

Colas, Mark; Sachs, Dominik - 2021

immigration literature. Empirical quantifications for the U.S. reveal that the indirect fiscal benefit of one low … has previously been documented. This challenges the perception of low-skilled immigration as a fiscal burden …

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Caught between Cultures : Unintended Consequences of Improving Opportunity for Immigrant Girls

Dahl, Gordon B. - 2020

self-esteem for immigrant girls. This is especially true for Muslims, where traditional cultural identity is particularly …

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Permanent Residency and Refugee Immigrants’ Skill Investment

Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2023

We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants’ eligibility criteria for permanent …

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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries

Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008

of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all … geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …

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Workplace Segregation and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants

Willis, Sébastien - 2022

Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is an open question. I study the effect of the conational share in an immigrant’s first job on subsequent labour market outcomes using register data from Germany. I instrument...

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Can Job Search Assistance Improve the Labour Market Integration for Refugees? Evidence from a Field Experiment

Battisti, Michele - 2019

We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone...

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Exposure to Past Immigration Waves and Attitudes Toward Newcomers

Gihleb, Rania; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2022

How does previous exposure to massive immigrant inflows affect concerns about current immigration and the integration …

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Immigrants' Contribution to Innovativeness : Evidence from a Non-Selective Immigration Country

Candel-Haug, Katharina - 2019

. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and … particularly interesting as Polish immigration to Germany was not based on selection by qualification in our period of analysis …

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The Impact of Natives' Attitudes Towards Immigrants on Their Integration in the Host Country

Schilling, Pia; Stillman, Steven - 2021

Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to different locations in Germany, we study the impact of right-wing voting on refugees’ integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse economic and social integration. These impacts...

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