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This paper investigates the long-term effects on immigrant earnings and employment from labor market conditions … rates. Comparing refugees entering Sweden in a severe and unexpected recession to refugees arriving in a preceding economic …
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The impact of living in an ethnic enclave on earnings growth of immigrants in Canada is examined using the 1981-2001 Censuses. Consistent with U.S. findings, enclaves are found to have a negative impact on the earnings growth of male immigrants. A negative impact is also found for female...
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, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment rates than their non-STEM counterparts, with … partial explanation for this self-employment gap. High wages in STEM paid-employment combined with reduced earnings in self-employment … make self-employment less desirable for STEM graduates. High self-employment rates among other foreign-born workers …
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, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment rates than their non-STEM counterparts, with … partial explanation for this self-employment gap. High wages in STEM paid-employment combined with reduced earnings in self-employment … make self-employment less desirable for STEM graduates. High self-employment rates among other foreign-born workers …
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This paper is part of the Global Repository of Income Dynamics (GRID) project cross‐country comparison of earnings …
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Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to … that ethnic identity is strongly associated with employment and wages as well a number of job satisfaction measures. We …
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During the African American Great Migration, millions of blacks left the Southern USA in favor of cities in the North. Despite the social and economic consequences of this migration, the question of its impacts on labor markets in the North has largely been overlooked in the literature. In this...
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model predicts both segmented sorting of migrants to countries with a compressed income distribution, with negative sorting … increasing with lower portability and positive sorting increasing with portability. Sorting to countries with greater income … compared to migrants to countries with greater income dispersion. Regressions results on data for 16 OECD countries from the …
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. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to … that ethnic identity strongly is associated with employment and wages as well a number of job satisfaction measures. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422534