...Giuseppina Autiero; Annamaria Nese Purpose This work analyzes female immigrants’ integration in the dimensions of education, labor market participation and fertility in 15 European countries, considering individual characteristics, including cultural background, host countries’ attitudes towards...

...Nicholas Larsen; Barry R. Chiswick Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore how potential exposure to missionary activity impacts both English language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the USA. Design/methodology/approach This study uses the pooled...

...Muhammad Asali The effects of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives have been amply studied in the literature. Spatial correlations studies have found the effects to be small and insignificant (see a survey by Friedberg and Hunt, 1995). The small effects might be the result...

...Kerstin Bruckmeier; Jürgen Wiemers Purpose International empirical evidence suggests that immigrants have a significantly higher risk than their native counterparts of being on welfare due to their observed characteristics. Nevertheless, it remains unclear if immigrants are also more prone to take...

...Gil S. Epstein; Odelia Heizler (Cohen) Developing a theoretical approach for the formation of networks in the diaspora. In this paper, we present a model of immigrant network formation in the diaspora. The fact that the migrants are all from the same origin increases the chances...

...Carlo Devillanova; Tommaso Frattini 05 08 2015 08 04 2016 26 07 2016 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only The purpose of this paper is to empirically assess whether immigrants suffer from unequal...

...Dr Michael Beenstock, Professor Raul Ramos and Professor Jordi Suriñach; Elisabet Motellón; Enrique López-Bazo Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to check if the rate of employment dismissal in the Spanish labour market is higher for immigrants from countries of the European Neighbourhood...

...Lixin Cai; Amy Y.C. Liu Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the wage differentials along the entire distribution between immigrants and the Australian-born. Design/methodology/approach – Using the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, the authors...

... locally the decisions of immigrants towards entrepreneurship, the authors develop a simple model that explains immigrant self-employment rates for a sample of 2,490 Swiss municipalities. In addition, the authors accommodate for the presence of spatial spillovers in the distribution of rates, and test...

...Professor Jose-Luis Hervas-Oliver; Michael Rosholm; Marianne Røed; Pål Schøne Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyse if introduction of new technologies and work practices are negatively related to the employment opportunities of immigrants. Design/methodology/approach...

...Alan Barrett; Martin Kahanec; Klaus F. Zimmermann; Björn Anders Gustafsson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the issue of social assistance receipt among immigrants to Sweden and compare to receipt by natives. Design/methodology/approach The paper describes...

...Alan Barrett; Martin Kahanec; Klaus F. Zimmermann; Stephen Drinkwater; Catherine Robinson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the welfare participation of immigrant groups in the UK, which has experienced a large growth in its immigrant flows and population levels in recent years...

...Alan Barrett; Martin Kahanec; Klaus F. Zimmermann; Alan Barrett; Corona Joyce; Bertrand Maître Purpose The purpose of this paper is to compare the rates of receipt of welfare for immigrants and natives in Ireland, to see if the outcome is consistent with the operation of a policy which...

...Alan Barrett; Martin Kahanec; Klaus F. Zimmermann; Alan Barrett; Bertrand Maître Purpose In this paper, the authors aim to assess whether immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a range of European countries. They also seek to examine relative rates...

...Alejandro Escribá‐Esteve; Ángeles Montoro‐Sánchez; Nicolas Gérard Vaillant; François‐Charles Wolff Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of self‐assessed health on retirement plans of older migrants living in France. As immigration is primarily associated with labor...

.../value The paper introduces a number of articles proposing innovations in the interpretation and application of a wide range of theoretical approaches and econometric methodologies. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 Labour market Disabilities Young adults Immigrants Disadvantaged...

...Giuliana Parodi; Francesco Pastore; Catia Nicodemo; Raul Ramos Purpose The purpose of this paper is to quantify the wage gap between native and immigrant women in Spain, taking into account differences in their characteristics and the need to control for common support. If immigrant women...

...Lina Andersson Purpose Self‐employment has been stressed as a way for immigrants to enter and improve their situation in the labour market. However, research shows that some people who become self‐employed revert to wage employment or unemployment. The purpose of the paper is to study the labour...

... 2011 Migration Ethnicity Ethnic identity Ethnosizer Unemployment Job search Reservation wages Ethnography Germany Job mobility Immigrants First and second generation Turks are identified as the group with the greatest problems in this regard. Germany's immigration history...

... to investigate whether migrants and natives react similarly to the expectation of participating in an ALMP, and whether migrants of different regions of origin react similarly or not. Immigrants Policy evaluation Reservation wage Search effort Expectations Active labor market policy Labour market...