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The value of earning for learning: Performance bonuses in immigrant language training

Åslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

We study the effects of performance bonuses in immigrant language training for adults. A Swedish policy pilot conducted in 2009-2010 gave a randomly assigned group of municipalities the right to grant substantial cash bonuses to recently arrived migrants. The results suggest substantial effects...

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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools

Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...

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Immigration and Occupations in Europe

D'Amuri, Francesco; Peri, Giovanni - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on natives' job specialization in Western Europe. We test whether the inflow of immigrants changes employment rates or the chosen occupation of natives with similar education and age. We find no evidence of the first and strong evidence of the...

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Immigration and the School System

Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...

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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...

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Doctors without Borders: The Returns to an Occupational License for Soviet Immigrant Physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana D.; Sauer, Robert M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this Paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...

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Heterogeneous Firms and Imperfect Substitution: The Productivity Effect of Migrants

Haas, Anette; Lucht, Michael - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

To examine the impact of migrants on the average firm productivity, wages and welfare we construct a general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition a la Melitz (2003) considering heterogeneous firms with different productivity levels and imperfect substitutability between migrants and...

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The differential role of social networks: Strategies and routes in Brazilian migration to Portugal and the Netherlands

Meeteren, Masja van; Pereira, Sonia - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

This paper draws on qualitative and quantitative data on the migration experiences of Brazilians living in Portugal and … the Netherlands to reflect and expand upon the existing knowledge on the role of social networks in migration processes …

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Measuring Cultural Diversity and its Impact on Innovation: Longitudinal Evidence from Dutch firms

Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques; Ozgen, Ceren - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013

To investigate econometrically whether cultural diversity of a firm’s employees boosts innovation, we create a unique … linked employer-employee dataset that combines data from two innovation surveys in The Netherlands with administrative and … generally more innovative, but that diversity among a firm’s foreign workers is positively associated with innovation activity …

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The Impact of Cultural Diversity on Innovation: Evidence from Dutch Firm-Level Data

Ozgen, Ceren - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011

migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

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