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Relations between immigration and adult skills : findings based on PIAAC

Lind, Patrik; Mellander, Erik - 2016

The international survey of adult skills, PIAAC, records large differences in numeracy and literacy skills between immigrants and non-immigrants. We examine how these differences relate to the countries’ average skills and skill rankings. Immigrants are defined by country of birth or in terms...

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Involuntary migration, context of reception, and social mobility : the case of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the United States

Bankston, Carl L., III.; Zhou, Min - 2018

In this study, we examine the Vietnamese population of the United States as a case study in the integration of a refugee group in a host country. We approach this case in three parts. We first offer a brief review of Vietnamese refugee resettlement in the US and the making of a new ethnic...

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The making of a ghetto place-based policies, labeling, and impacts on neighborhoods and individuals

Govind, Yajna; Melbourne, Jack; Signorelli, Sara; Zink, … - 2024

Does the labeling of neighborhoods affect their outcomes? Place-based policies targeting disadvantaged areas aim to improve their conditions, but the labels they impose carry consequences of their own. In this paper, we examine Denmark's Ghetto Plan which designated public housing areas with a...

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Labour market disadvantages of citizens with a migration background in Belgium : a systematic review

De Vos, Louise; Lippens, Louis; Lens, Dries; Rycx, François - 2024

recommendations and literature gaps. The literature reveals that individuals with a migration background generally experience poorer …

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Transnational social mobility of minorities : a comparative analysis of 14 immigrant minority groups

Kislev, Elyakim - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 15, pp. 1-21

with that of migration and addresses this gap by developing a theory of a growing phenomenon: the transnational social …

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Migrating for children's better future : intergenerational mobility of internal migrants' children in Indonesia

Fatimah, Alfariany Milati; Kofol, Chiara - 2019

Internal migration dominates population mobility in Indonesia; according to the 2010 census, there were almost 30 … million permanent migrants, around 12.5 percent of the population. The effects of this internal migration on the second … generation continue to be under-explored. This paper investigates the long-term impact of parents' migration on their children …

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Immigrant fertility in Germany : the role of culture

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2014

Deutschland zum Zeitpunkt der Migration verwendet. Die Schätzergebnisse eines linearen Fixed-Effects-Ansatzes zeigen, dass …

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Do immigrants follow their home country's fertility norms?

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2013

and therefore favor the socialization hypothesis. -- migration ; fertility ; socialization ; culture ; Germany …

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Social capital, entrepreneurship and living standards : differences between immigrants and the native born

Roskruge, Matthew; Poot, Jacques; King, Laura - 2016

Both migrant entrepreneurship and social capital are topics which have attracted a great deal of attention. However, relatively little econometric analysis has been done on their interrelationship. In this paper we first consider the relationship between social capital and the prevalence of...

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Academic migration and academic networks : evidence from scholarly big data and the iron curtain

Kamel, Donia; Pollacci, Paura - 2023

migration. Academics in countries behind the Iron Curtain were strongly isolated from the rest of the world. This context poses … the question of the importance of academic networks for migration post the fall of the Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain. Using … cost of migration and thus acting as a facilitator or a de-facilitator of migration. The signal channel on the other hand …

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