Social Contacts, Dutch Language Proficiency and Immigrant Economic Performance in the Netherlands
Using longitudinal data on immigrants in the Netherlands for the years 1991, 1994, 1998, 2002, we examined the impacts of social contacts and Dutch language proficiency on adult foreign-born men’s earnings, employment and occupational status. The main conclusions are as follows. On average, social contacts and a good mastery of the Dutch language enhance immigrants’ economic performances. The effects are stronger for immigrants with low-skilltransferability than for immigrants with high-skill-transferability, and are stronger for economic migrants than for non-economic migrants. Contact with D... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2016 |
Schlagwörter: | social capital / Dutch language proficiency / labour market performance / Dutch immigrants / skill transferability |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27216929 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
Powered By: | BASE |
Link(s) : | http://repub.eur.nl/pub/126822 |