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The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
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Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways - immigrant societies are multi-layered and multi-dimensional. We examine the situation where there exists a foundation that has resources and that wishes to help the migrants. To do so they need migrant groups...
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1970s, we uncover evidence of intergenerational assimilation in education, earnings and fertility. …
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after the crisis. Although we find that negative labour demand shocks raise the probability of return migration, the …
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panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation … to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …
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This paper studies the effects of threat on convergence to local culture and on economic assimilation of refugees … faster economic assimilation. We provide evidence consistent with the hypothesis that refugees exert more assimilation effort …
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During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to … culture will not survive over time. In the second case the local culture will survive. We show the conditions for assimilation … versus no assimilation between the groups. …
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after the crisis. Although we find that negative labour demand shocks raise the probability of return migration, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010889996
1970s, we uncover evidence of intergenerational assimilation in education, earnings and fertility. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011074821
The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822525