Social Contacts, Dutch Language Proficiency and Immigrant Economic Performance in the Netherlands
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Keywords
immigrants; social capital; Dutch language proficiency; labour market performance; skill transferability; the Netherlands;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J15 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Minorities, Races, Indigenous Peoples, and Immigrants; Non-labor Discrimination
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- Z13 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology; Language; Social and Economic Stratification
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EUR-2019-11-11 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-LAB-2019-11-11 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-SOC-2019-11-11 (Social Norms and Social Capital)
- NEP-URE-2019-11-11 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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