...Oxana Krutova Purpose This research considers the question of whether unemployment insurance benefit and labour-market activation measures induce the likelihood of re-employment and whether this effect differs for natives and immigrants. Design/methodology/approach Statistical processing...

... policy advice to help improve recruitment and retention strategies for care workers in countries dependent on global labour markets for health workers. In New Zealand, changes in policies concerning remuneration and immigration highlight the importance of ensuring that care worker needs are met both...

...Fariba Solati; Murshed Chowdhury; Nicholas Jackson Purpose Both potential immigrants to Canada and policymakers in Canada continually compare and contrast the economic returns of immigrants' language ability and proficiency. They ask which of the two official languages has a higher economic return...

...Fabio Berti; Antonella D’Agostino; Achille Lemmi; Laura Neri Purpose – Italy has become a migrant receiving country and it has to face with the problem of social inclusion of immigrants. The purpose of this paper is to measure the gap on poverty and deprivation between immigrants and natives...

... the cost of producing high‐tech goods and services in destination countries. In the USA, for instance, it has been estimated that a quarter of Silicon Valley firms are headed by immigrants from China and India (Goldin and Reinert, 2007). Historical facts show that a number of inventions in the past took...

... methodology consists of estimating discrete‐choice models and survival models, controlling for personal characteristics, job characteristics, and unobserved heterogeneity. Findings One of the main results of this paper is that the immigrants are a disadvantaged group with regard to entry into self...

...Sebastian Gundel; Heiko Peters Purpose Because of the increasing importance of immigration for Germany due to the ageing population and the lack of highly skilled in some industries, the purpose of this paper is to analyse the return‐migration of German immigrants. Design/methodology/approach...

... components of integration theory and incorporates also a business history approach. Findings The main findings indicate that the EU is gradually having more influence over member states, newer areas of development include social policy, immigration and an increasing neoliberalist approach towards opening...