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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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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...

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Kick It Like Özil? Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap

Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic background and another part remains unexplained....

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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The theoretical analysis indicates a tendency toward the...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although … through which the knowledge acquired by emigrants abroad can flow back to the South and enhance the skills of the remaining … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it …

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Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The results indicate that those who...

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Pulls of International Student Mobility

Kahanec, Martin; Králiková, Renáta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Economic theory suggests that high-skilled immigration generally has positive effects on the receiving economy. International student mobility is an important channel through which high-skilled immigrants arrive. The purpose of this paper is to identify some of the key determinants of...

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