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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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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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The Determinants of Regional Migration in Great Britain: A Duration Approach

Andrews, Martyn J.; Clark, Ken; Whittaker, William - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Using data from the first fourteen waves of the British Household Panel Survey, we estimate a discrete duration model of interregional migration in Great Britain. By exploiting retrospective information on residency we control for late entry as well as unobserved heterogeneity. We find...

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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990

Regets, Mark C.; Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...

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On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options: Comment and New Results

Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration, region-specific shocks may increase the average level of education. Previously, Poutvaara (2000) derived a corresponding result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which...

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Are All Migrants Really Worse Off in Urban Labour Markets? New Empirical Evidence from China

Gagnon, Jason; Xenogiani, Theodora; Xing, Chunbing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to the welfare of migrant workers, particularly to their working conditions and pay. This paper uses data from a random draw of the 2005 Chinese national census survey to investigate discrimination in urban...

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Migration from Ukraine: Brawn or Brain? New Survey Evidence

Commander, Simon; Nikolaychuk, Olexandr; Vikhrov, Dmytro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

duration of stay in a foreign country and knowledge of the local language or English. Significantly, someone who downshifted …

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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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Differences in Employment Outcomes for College Town Stayers and Leavers

Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as "college towns" and investigates differences in employment...

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New Directions in Immigration Policy: Canada's Evolving Approach to the Selection of Economic Immigrants

Ferrer, Ana; Picot, Garnett; Riddell, W. Craig - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labor market shortages often associated with commodity booms,...

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