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Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015

is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …

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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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Self-Employment Differentials among Foreign-Born STEM and Non-STEM Workers

Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2017

This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the previously overlooked fact that foreign STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment rates than their non-STEM counterparts, with an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage...

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Self-Employment Differentials among Foreign-Born STEM and Non-STEM Workers

Cai, Zhengyu; Winters, John V. - 2017

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Immigrant assimilation and male labor market inequality

Mason, Patrick L. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 17, pp. 1-32

-Americans. The immigration process selects black immigrants who have or who would have achieved middle income or higher status in …

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Do E-Verify Mandates Improve Labor Market Outcomes of Low-Skilled Native and Legal Immigrant Workers?

Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2015

We examine the impact of state level legislation against the hiring of unauthorized immigrants on employment opportunities among competing low-skilled workers. Our focus is on the role of E-Verify mandates and specifically, we test for effects of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on...

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Immigrants and entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)

Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self-employment is often viewed as a means of enhancing labor market integration and success among immigrants. Accordingly, many countries have established special visas and entry...

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Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden

Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2014

Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … immigration. The labour immigration expanded for example after the enlargement in 2004 but not so much as in for example the … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …

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H-1Bs: How do they stack up to US born workers?

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hayes, Joseph - 2011

Combining unique individual level H-1B data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and data from the …

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Immigrant wages in the Spanish labour market: does the origin of human capital matter?

Sanromà, Esteban; Ramos, Raúl; Simón, Hipólito - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2009

The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...

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