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-generation immigrants and 4 % is Hispanic. Intergenerational improvement is an important source of wage convergence of black immigrants …. Unskilled immigrants who arrive in the USA as children and adolescents experience substantial wage assimilation, especially … Caribbean-English and African-English immigrants. But both unskilled immigrants arriving as adults and all skilled immigrants …
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immigrants. We find no evidence for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm …This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … against immigrants. We build on an identification strategy proposed by Bartolucci (Ind Labor Relat Rev 67(4):1166-1202, 2014 …
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employment and wages of the local population. I show that male immigrants were fully integrated into the labor market, while … female immigrants faced significant wage and employment gaps upon arrival, and their assimilation was slow. Using an IV … strategy to account for the endogenous choice of location, I find a negative effect of the inflows of immigrants on the local …
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We use a nationally representative survey to investigate the incidence of discrimination against internal migrant … however of wage discrimination against rural hukou status. A semi-parametric method suggests a larger discrimination against … migrants in the upper half of the wage distribution. Discrimination against migrants seems not to decrease as their duration of …
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This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred...
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The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … incidence, wage effects and state dependence in overeducation among natives and immigrants. In line with previous research we … find a higher incidence and a lower return to overeducation among immigrants indicating that immigrants lose more from …
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This study evaluates the local language training aimed at the unemployed in Estonia during 2015-2016. The impact of training on employment probability and labour income is estimated by combining propensity score matching with coarsened exact matching. The impact on the probability of being...
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