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The social integration of international migrants: evidence from the networks of Syrians in Germany

Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew M.; Koenen, Martin; … - 2022

We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that … received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on … relative rate at which they befriend local Syrian migrants versus German natives (relative friending). We follow the friending …

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Ethnic networks in the internationalization of Turkish food producers

Bağcı, Utku Eren; Franz, Martin; Yavan, Nuri - In: ZFW - advances in economic geography 66 (2022) 4, pp. 201-210

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Ethnic networks in the internationalization of Turkish food producers

Bağcı, Utku Eren; Franz, Martin; Yavan, Nuri - In: ZFW – Advances in Economic Geography 66 (2022) 4, pp. 201-210

The Uppsala Internationalization Process Model falls short in its ability to explain how emerging market firms internationalize. In this respect, the model needs to be enhanced through theoretical and empirical contributions. In this study, we aimed to increase the relationality of the model by...

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Do high-skilled immigrants find jobs faster than low-skilled immigrants? : conference paper

Hochfellner, Daniela; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2014 - Preliminary version: 27th February 2014

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We first show theoretically that the job-finding rate for the high-skilled varies depending on their search strategy: if they are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as...

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The immigrant wage gap in Germany : are East Europeans worse off?

Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2010

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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Economic assimiliation of immigrants arriving from highly developed countries : the case of German immigrants in Sweden and the US

Haberfeld, Yitchak; Birgier, Debora Pricila; Lundh, Christer - 2017

Migration across well-developed countries has been overlooked in the immigration literature. The present study is designed to evaluate the interplay between the effects of host countries' characteristics and self-selection patterns of immigrants from a highly developed country on their economic...

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Identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants

Carillo, Maria R.; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, Tiziana - 2021

This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the host and home country have higher employment rates,...

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Improving well-being in New Zealand through migration

Carey, David - 2019

New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that...

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Identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants

Carillo, Maria R.; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, Tiziana - 2021

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How Different are Immigrants? A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement

Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2021

This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The first step of the analysis shows...

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