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Sibling correlations and intergenerational mobility across immigrant groups
Colagrossi, Marco; Deiana, Claudio; Geraci, Andrea; … - 2024
We study immigrant assimilation in terms of earnings dynamics and patterns of intergenerational transmission in permanent earnings by immigrant generation and neighborhood segregation levels. We estimate comparable sibling correlations across native and immigrant groups, but these seem to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015130538
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Interethnic Marriages and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants
Kantarevic, Jasmin - 2021
This paper examines the relationship between interethnic marriages and economic assimilation among immigrants in the United States. Two competing hypotheses are evaluated: the productivity hypothesis, according to which immigrants married to native-born spouses assimilate faster than comparable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319270
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214113
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Who assimilates? : statistical artefacts and intergenerational mobility in immigrant families
Luthra, Renee; Soehl, Thomas - 2014
This paper assesses estimates of immigrant intergenerationa l mobility that are based on aggregate data sources. We show that aggregation bias strongly inflates estimates of the relationship between immigrants' educational attainment and the educational attainment of their children. Compared to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010400651
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Immigrant volunteering : a way out of labour market discrimination?
Baert, Stijn; Vujić, Sunčica - 2016
Many governments encourage migrants to participate in volunteer activities as a stepping stone to labour market …-volunteering native candidates receive more than twice as many job interview invitations as non‐volunteering migrants, no unequal … treatment is found between natives and migrants when they reveal volunteer activities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452746
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The effect of 9/11 on immigrants' ethnic identity and employment : evidence from Germany
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
identity choice of the migrants and thus, their employment outcomes. This study investigates the effect of the 9/11 terrorist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018759
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The effect of 9/11 on immigrants' ethnic identity and employment : evidence from Germany
Delaporte, Isaure - 2019
identity choice of the migrants and thus, their employment outcomes. This study investigates the effect of the 9/11 terrorist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159277
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Qualifications, Discrimination, or Assimilation? An Extended Framework for Analysing Immigrant Wage Gaps
Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - 2021
In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage differences, namely the "assimilation literature" and the "discrimination literature". We estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320790
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Qualifications, discrimination, or assimilation? : an extended framework for analysing immigrant wage gaps
Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - 2001
In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage differences, namely the 'assimilation literature' and the 'discrimination literature'. We estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001635472
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Qualifications, discrimination, or assimilation? : an extended framework for analysing immigrant wage gaps
Nielsen, Helena Skyt; Rosholm, Michael; Smith, Nina; … - 2001
In this paper, we analyze immigrant wage gaps and propose an extension of the traditional wage decomposition technique, which is a synthesis from two strains of literature on ethnic/immigrant wage differences, namely the "assimilation literature" and the "discrimination literature". We estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403825