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We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the …
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In this paper, I analyze intergenerational mobility of immigrants and natives in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP), I find intergenerational elasticities that range from 0.19 to 0.26 for natives and from 0.37 to 0.40 for immigrants. These elasticity estimates are lower than...
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We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts—the number of individuals of the same ethnicity—and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic...
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investigate the importance of characteristics related to immigration for the labour market position of Turkish immigrants. We use … explained partly by differences in immigration rules. In Germany economic self-reliance is more important than in the …
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immigration are less likely (such as Asia) may be tied to the lack of improvements in immigrant wage outcomes despite the …
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This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to analyze the acquisition of Spanish language skills for immigrants in Spain. The motivation of the paper is threefold. Language skills are important for an individual's labour market performance, Spain offers an important...
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We examine the ability of male immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration … skill requirements of pre- and post-immigration occupations. We find that male immigrants to Canada were employed in source … immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the opposite. These discrepancies are both larger and more …
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after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the lowest proficiency. These differences … disappear by 3 – years after immigration for speaking skills, but they persist for reading and writing skills. The variables …
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after immigration, followed by family-based visa recipients, with refugees having the lowest proficiency. These differences … disappear by 3 ½ years after immigration for speaking skills, but they persist for reading and writing skills. The variables …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566815
This article uses micro-data from the Spanish National Immigrant Survey to analyze the acquisition of Spanish language skills for immigrants in Spain. The motivation of the paper is threefold. Language skills are important for an individual's labour market performance, Spain offers an important...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010481638