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Talking about the Pigou Paradox: Socio-Educational Background and Educational Outcomes of AlmaLaurea
Caroleo, Floro Ernesto; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Italy has an immobile social structure. At the heart of this immobility is the educational system, with its high direct, but especially indirect cost, due to the extremely long time necessary to get a degree and to complete the subsequent school-to-work transition. Such cost prevents the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325423
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Highly skilled temporary return, technological change and Innovation: The Case of the TRQN Project in Afghanistan
Kuschminder, Katie; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2012
capacity building in the origin country through knowledge transfer, innovation and technological change. The paper specifically … examines the needs, expectations and delivery of knowledge through the TRQN project in Afghanistan. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712238
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Ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK: evidence from patents microdata
Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Ethnic inventors play important roles in US innovation systems, especially in high-tech regions like Silicon Valley. Do … ‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …
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The Value of Hiring through Referrals
Burks, Stephen V.; Cowgill, Bo; Hoffman, Mitchell; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Employee referrals are a very common means by which firms hire new workers. Past work suggests that workers hired via referrals often perform better than non-referred workers, but we have little understanding as to why. In this paper, we demonstrate that this is primarily because referrals allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128036
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Migration Policy Can Boost PISA Results: Findings from a Natural Experiment
Cattaneo, Maria Alejandra; Wolter, Stefan C - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Switzerland radically changed its migration policy in the mid-nineties from a "non-qualified only" policy to one that favors the immigration of highly qualified migrants. To analyze the impact of this change on the schooling outcomes of migrants, this paper compares the PISA (OECD Programme for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646284
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Acquiring Human Capital through the Generations by Migration
Smith, James P.; Delaney, Liam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Our focus will be on the role of migration to the United States from a set of important European sending countries as a device for improving the human capital of the children and grandchildren of migrants as measured by their education. In this paper, we derive a new and conceptual more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010720689
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Promoting return and circular migration of the highly skilled
Hercog, Metka; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
the effects of skilled return migrants which bring about the transfer of knowledge and skills. This paper examines five …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856481
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Human Capital Mobility: Implications for Efficiency, Income Distribution, and Policy
Wildasin, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the efficiency and distributional effects of mobility,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884096
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Does Immigration Policy Affect the Education-Occupation Mismatch? Evidence from Australia
Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced on 1st July 1999, on migrants' probability of being over-/under-educated or correctly matched. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements about age, language ability, education, and work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959842
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Does Better Pre-Migration Performance Accelerate Immigrants' Wage Assimilation?
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Toomet, Ott; Hochfellner, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyzes wage assimilation of ethnic German immigrants to Germany. We use unique administrative data that include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the German wage structure. We find that immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010960097