Interactions between Local and Migrant Workers at the Workplace

Gil Epstein and Yosef Mealem ()
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Yosef Mealem: Netanya Academic College

No 5051, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and thereby increase their interaction and production activities. We consider the effect of the relative size (in the firm) of each group and the cost of activities on the migrants’ assimilation process.

Keywords: market structure; ethnicity; contracts; assimilation; networks; harassment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D74 F23 I20 J61 L14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 17 pages
Date: 2010-07
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Published - published in: Gil S. Epstein and Ira N. Gang (eds.), Migration and Culture, Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 8, Emerald Publishing, Bingley, 2010, 193-203

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Working Paper: Interactions between local and migrant workers at the workplace (2010)
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