Immigrant selectivity effects on health, labor market, and educational outcomes

C Feliciano - Annual Review of Sociology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Over the past two decades, a growing body of research has focused on immigrant selectivity
and its effects on immigrant health, immigrant labor market outcomes, and children of …

Status loss: The burden of positively selected immigrants

P Engzell, M Ichou - International Migration Review, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Immigrants experience an ambiguous social position: on the one hand, they tend to be
positively selected on resources from the origin country; on the other, they often occupy the …

Selectivity profiles of recently arrived refugees and labour migrants in Germany

C Spörlein, C Kristen, R Schmidt, J Welker - Soziale Welt, 2020 - JSTOR
Migrant selectivity refers to the idea that immigrants differ in certain characteristics from
individuals who stay behind in their country of origin. In this article, we describe the …

Gender differences in second language proficiency—evidence from recent humanitarian migrants in Germany

S Bernhard, S Bernhard - Journal of Refugee Studies, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In this paper, we address gender differences in the host language proficiency of
humanitarian migrants. Prior research has produced inconclusive results with regard to …

Educational selectivity and immigrants' labour market performance in Europe

R Schmidt, C Kristen, P Mühlau - European Sociological Review, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This article depicts the selectivity profiles of first-generation immigrants of multiple origins in
18 European destinations and investigates whether educational selectivity is relevant to …

[HTML][HTML] Do immigrants benefit from selection? Migrant educational selectivity and its association with social networks, skills and health

RR Luthra, L Platt - Social Science Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Recent scholarship suggests that immigrant selectivity–the degree to which immigrants differ
from non-migrants in their sending countries–can help us understand their labour market …

Why we should care about regional origins: educational selectivity among refugees and labor migrants in Western Europe

C Spörlein, C Kristen - Frontiers in Sociology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Immigrant selectivity describes the notion that migrants are not a random sample of the
population at origin, but differ in certain traits such as educational attainment from …

Immigrant students' achievements in light of their educational aspirations and academic motivation

A Miyamoto, J Seuring, C Kristen - Journal of Ethnic and Migration …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Despite their often-reported tendency to 'aim high', children of immigrants frequently
demonstrate lower school achievement than children of non-immigrants. We address this …

Successful due to STEM? Labour market returns to STEM qualifications among skilled immigrants in Germany

I Kogan, J Schabinger - European Societies, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Against the growing demand for the STEM labour force, the study examines labour market
returns to STEM qualifications among immigrants who arrived in Germany since the 1980s …

Immigrants' selectivity and their socio‐economic outcomes in the destination country: The Italian case

C Brunori, R Luijkx, M Triventi - Population, Space and Place, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We use a multiple‐origins single destination design to understand how the premigration
socio‐economic status (SES) and immigrants' selectivity affect their labour market outcomes …