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decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration on the host societies by showing that growing up in high immigration area … increases intergenerational income mobility among natives and by showing that immigration may, under specific circumstances …
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The immigration to Norway has increased strongly since the turn of the millennium and especially since the eastward EU … their reason of immigration. The immigration has changed from a gender balance during the first years of the 2000 towards a … clear male dominance after 2005, mostly due to increased labour immigration. The immigration has changed from a dominance of …
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September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between 2004 and 2011, we examine the relationship between immigration …
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immigration from Western European countries; and 2) how such immigrants fare in the British labour market in terms of employment …-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However …, there is lack of recent systematic evidence on the level of immigration and the quality of the new immigrants. We focus on …
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This study compares the outcomes of male foreign workers from different East and West European countries who entered the German labour market between 1995 and 2000, with those of male German workers. We find that the immigrant-native wage gap differs significantly between nationalities: the...
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The migration literature shows that cross-border skill transfer is associated with a risk of increased job-education mismatch. This paper examines whether the problems of job-education mismatch often found among migrants also apply to cross-border commuters and compares cross-border commuters to...
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We show that parts of the unexplained wage gap in standard Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions result from the neglect of the role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade-off regarding whose career to promote and show analytically...
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