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Introduction-- Background • Disadvantages of immigrants in the local labour market (Chiswick, 1978): --Lack of language skills, --Absence of social networks, --Less knowledge of customs, --Lack of information about the local labour market, --Lack of firm-specific training
Introduction-- Background • However, economists (e.g. Chiswick, 1978; Borjas, 1991, 1994) hypothesise that immigrants would be eventually assimilated. Because immigrants are: -- more able and self-motivated -- work harder and longer --easy for them to transfer skills Thus, immigrants’ income grows faster. Source: Borjas (1994)
Page 1 and 2: Assimilation, Ethnic Capital, and t
Page 3: Introduction-- Background • Assim
Page 7 and 8: Introduction- New Zealand Case (hou
Page 9 and 10: Introduction-- Motivation • In ad
Page 11 and 12: Ethnic Capital • Ethnic capital i
Page 13 and 14: Ethnic Capital-network effects •
Page 15 and 16: Ethnic Capital-Ethnic Concentration
Page 17 and 18: Ethnic network- example Waikato
Page 19 and 20: Models-Spatial model (SAR)
Page 21 and 22: Data New Zealand Income Survey •
Page 23 and 24: Empirical Results Table 4: OLS Esti
Page 25 and 26: Table 6: GMM Estimates of Log Hourl
Page 27 and 28: Conclusion • The empirical findin
Page 30: Future research plan • From this

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