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Labour Market Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants: How Heterogeneous Are They Really?

Schurer, Stefanie - 2008

The second and third generation of immigrants have been the centre of a lively debate about the economic integration of immigrants into their host societies, but there is little empirical evidence on the German case. In this study I comprehensively portray the labour market outcomes of second...

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Labour Market Outcomes of Second Generation Immigrants: How Heterogeneous Are They Really?

Schurer, Stefani - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2008

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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - 2010

This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...

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Heterogeneity in marginal returns to language training of immigrants

Giesecke, Matthias; Schuss, Eric - 2019

We estimate the effect of language training on subsequent employment and wages of immigrants under essential heterogeneity. The identifying variation is based on regional differences in language training availability that we use to instrument endogenous participation. Estimating marginal...

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Task specialization and the native-foreign wage gap: Evidence from worker-level data

Storm, Eduard - 2021

for imperfect substitution of native and foreign workers in the production function and consequently small migration …

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The Costs of Babylon – Linguistic Distance in Applied Economics

Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - 2012

economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and …

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Transferability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation – An Analysis for Germany

Basilio, Leilanie; Bauer, Thomas K. - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518188

The Costs of Babylon – Linguistic Distance in Applied Economics

Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012

economic transactions such as migration or international trade flows by imposing hurdles for second language acquisition and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556738

Migration response to an immigration shock: Evidence from Russia's aggression against Ukraine

Zuchowski, David - 2023

Russia's attacks against Ukraine have triggered massive and unexpected migration movements. In this paper, I examine … the impact of the inflow of Ukrainians that resulted from Russia's aggression in 2014 on local migration patterns in … internal and international out-migration of the Polish population. I provide supportive evidence that the decrease in out-migration …

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Walking Wounded – The Causal Welfare Loss of Underemployment through Overeducation

Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Kleibrink, Jan - 2013

Using data from the SOEP, we analyze the wellbeing impact of underemployment through overeducation to examine a broader definition of employment loss. Persons leaving a job through exogenous reasons but entering directly into immediate employment may not find a perfect employment match and...

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