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White, Michael; Bryson, Alex - 2017

Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we identify the partial correlation between workplace wages and the percentage of migrants employed at a workplace. We find wages are lower in workplaces employing a higher percentage of migrants, but only when those migrants are non-EEA...

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Migration and Culture

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …

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Mapping experiences and research about unaccompanied refugee minors in Sweden and other countries

Çelikaksoy, Aycan; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2016

Many unaccompanied children have applied for asylum during the last few years, especially in 2015. These children face special challenges and risk being exploited due to their age and legal status. In this paper we survey research and otherwise documented experiences regarding this group of...

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Unaccompanied minors and separated refugee children in Sweden : an outlook on demography, education and employment

Çelikaksoy, Aycan; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2015

The number of unaccompanied minors has increased over the past ten years in Sweden, the European country that receives the most children from this group. Some of them emigrate after a period of time in Sweden, but the vast majority stay. Most of the arriving children are teenage boys who have...

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Migration, friendship ties and cultural assimilation

Facchini, Giovanni; Patacchini, Eleonora; Steinhardt, … - 2014

Using novel information from the German Socio-Economic Panel for the period 1996-2011, we document that migrants with a German friend are more similar to natives than those without a local companion along several important dimensions, including engagement in social activities, concerns about the...

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Strangers and foreigners : trust and attitudes toward citizenship

Bertocchi, Graziella; Dimico, Arcangelo; Tedeschi, Gian Luca - 2022

We analyze the relationship between natives' attitudes towards citizenship acquisition for foreigners and trust. Our hypothesis is that, in sub-Saharan Africa, the slave trade represents the deep factor behind contemporary attitudes toward citizenship, with more intense exposure to historical...

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Is child like parent? : educational attainment and ethnic origin

Gang, Ira N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999

The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation immigrants to those of natives in the same age cohort. Evidence using a large German data set...

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Self-employment differentials among foreign-born STEM and non-STEM workers

Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2017

This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the previously overlooked fact that foreign STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment rates than their non-STEM counterparts, with an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage...

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Growing up in ethnic enclaves : language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

Does a high regional concentration of immigrants of the same ethnicity affect immigrant children's acquisition of host-country language skills and educational attainment? We exploit the exogenous placement of guest workers from five ethnicities across German regions during the 1960s and 1970s in...

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Language proficiency and educational attainment of immigrant children

Danzer, Alexander M.; Feuerbaum, Carsten; Piopiunik, Marc; … - 2018

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