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Do migrants get good jobs in Australia? The role of ethnic networks in job search

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Junankar, P. N. (Raja) - 2008

We study the role of ethnic networks in migrants' job search and the quality of jobs they find in the first years of … result of restrictions in welfare eligibility since 1997, we study whether this increases the probability that new migrants … view. However, accounting for their higher employability, new migrants seem to fare better up to a year and half after …

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The intergenerational transmission of employers

Corak, Miles; Piraino, Patrizio - 2010

We find that about 40% of a cohort of young Canadian men has been employed with an employer for whom their father also worked; and six to nine percent have the same employer in adulthood. The intergenerational transmission of employers is positively related to paternal earnings, particularly at...

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Immigrant Job Search in the UK: Evidence from Panel Data

Frijters, Paul; Shields, Michael A.; Price, Stephen Wheatley - 2003

Most immigrant groups experience higher rates of unemployment than the host countries native population, but it is as yet unclear whether differences in job search behaviour, or its success, can help explain this gap. In this paper, we investigate how the job search methods of unemployed...

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The Job Search and Education Investments of Immigrant Families

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Connolly, Marie D.; Worswick, … - 2001

This paper examines the post-migration investments in schooling and job search of immigrant families using new longitudinal data for Australia. Higher education levels at time of arrival are associated with a greater probability of enrolling in school after migration. In households where the...

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Is it your foreign name or foreign qualifications? An experimental study of ethnic discrimination in hiring

Carlsson, Magnus; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2008

This paper contributes to the existing literature on ethnic discrimination of immigrants in hiring by addressing the central question of what employers act on in a job application. The method involved sending qualitatively identical resumes signalling belonging to different ethnic groups to...

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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed

Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009

the labor market reintegration, patterns of job search, and reservation wages across unemployed migrants and natives in … Germany. Our results indicate that separated migrants have a relatively slow reintegration into the labor market. We explain … moderate, yet still above the level which would imply similar employment probabilities as other groups of migrants. …

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Are skills a constraint on firms? New evidence from Russia

Commander, Simon; Denisova, Irina - 2012

find that there is some - albeit limited - evidence of firms using migrants to address high skill shortages. However, the … overwhelming majority of migrants are skilled or unskilled workers; a reflection of the low underlying rates of innovation and …

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On the Efficiency of Job Search with Social Networks

Cahuc, Pierre; Fontaine, François - 2002

This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers can be matched together through social networks and through more efficient, but also more costly, methods. In this framework, decentralized decisions to utilize social networks in the job search process can be...

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Intergenerational earnings mobility and the inheritance of employers

Corak, Miles; Piraino, Patrizio - 2010

Our analysis of intergenerational earnings mobility modifies the Becker-Tomes model to incorporate the intergenerational transmission of employers, which is predicted to increase the intergenerational elasticity of earnings. About 6% of young Canadian men have the same main employer as their...

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Ethnic networks and employment outcomes

Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2008

We analyse the effect of strong and weak ties on the individual probability of finding a job. Using the dynamic model of Calvó-Armengol and Jackson (2004), two results are put forward: (i) the individual probability of finding a job is increasing in the number of strong and weak ties; (ii) the...

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