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Social assimilation and labor market outcomes of migrants in China

Cai, Shu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020

Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and their adaption in the … migration process is likely to be quite different. The gap is closed by examining social assimilation and the effect on the …

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Identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants

Carillo, Maria R.; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, Tiziana - 2021

This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the host and home country have higher employment rates,...

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Occupational regulation, institutions, and migrants' labor market outcomes

Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022

We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their representation among licensed, certified, and unionized workers. We provide evidence of a dual role of labor market institutions, which both screen workers based on unobservable...

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Social identity and labor market outcomes of internal migrant workers

Cai, Shu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2024 - This version: January 9, 2024

international migration. Examining social identity and labor market outcomes in China, the country with the largest internal …

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Should I stay or should I go? : migration and job-skills mismatch among Italian doctoral recipients

Alfano, Vincenzo; D'Uva, Marcella; De Simone, Elina; … - 2019

' selfselection into non-academic employment as well as the endogeneity of the migration choice. Results demonstrate that migration … seems to facilitate the possibility of finding better job opportunities. More specifically, only migration within the …

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Job status, international migration and educational choice

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020

We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home … order to increase their chances of obtaining a job in the host country after migration. Thus, all home country students may …

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English skills and early labour market integration : evidence from humanitarian migrants in Australia

Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben Zhe; Jiang, Zhou; Taksa, Lucy; … - 2020

We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...

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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2021

An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...

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From engineer to taxi driver? : language proficiency and the occupational skills of immigrants

Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - 2018

We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross-border transferability of occupational human capital. We then explore...

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Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labour market matching : a comparison between immigrants and natives

Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2018

The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and...

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