Status at Entry and the Labor Market Integration of Migrants
This paper investigates the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their earnings. Particular attention is paid to the role of legal status at entry in the host country (worker, refugee, and family reunification). For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those who came through the employment channel are more likely to be in full-time paid work. In Denmark, however, the status at entry variables do not play any significant role.
Klaus F. Zimmermannis Co-Director of the Center for Population, Development and Labour Economics at UNU – MERIT, Maastricht, and President of the Global Labor Organization. His research covers labor, migration and development. He is currently Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Population Economics, and was the Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). He is currently visiting the University of Melbourne as an Eminent Research Scholar and will also be a visitor at Macquarie University. For further information about Klaus, see his profile.
His research covers applied economics, in particular the areas of labor, migration and development. He has written or edited 55 books, 160 papers in peer reviewed journals and 150 articles in collected volumes. He is committed to the diffusion of research to policy and society and evidence-based policymaking. He writes regularly in leading international media and advises governments and institutions.
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Thursday, November 23, 2017 - 11:00
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Thursday, November 23, 2017 - 13:00
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