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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees : Evidence from Romania and Implications

Ambrosini, William - 2011

-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. We find evidence for a … sorting of migrants consistent with skill compensation in destination countries. The premium to return migration increases … with migrants' skills and drives the positive selection of returnees. Based on the rationality of these migration decisions …

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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe

D’Amuri, Francesco - 2011

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...

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How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2010

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual patenting behavior as well as state-level determinants of patenting. The 2003 National Survey of College Graduates shows that immigrants patent at double the native rate, and that...

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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch

Kugler, Adriana D. - 2010

previous Latin American immigrants falls when controlling for out-migration. This highlights the importance of controlling for … out-migration not only of natives but also of previous immigrants in regional studies of immigration …

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Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants

Grogger, Jeffrey - 2010

alternative specifications of international migration, estimate the magnitude of migration costs by source-destination pair, and …

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Immigrants' and Native Workers : New Analysis on Longitudinal Data

Foged, Mette - 2013

Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...

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International Migration, Self-Selection, and the Distribution of Wages : Evidence from Mexico and the United States

Chiquiar, Daniel; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2022

observable skills there is intermediate or positive selection of immigrants from Mexico. The results also suggest that migration …

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Mismatch Unemployment

Sahin, Aysegul - 2012

We develop a framework where mismatch between vacancies and job seekers across sectors translates into higher unemployment by lowering the aggregate job-finding rate. We use this framework to measure the contribution of mismatch to the recent rise in U.S. unemployment by exploiting two sources...

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Matching Capital and Labor

Berk, Jonathan - 2014

We establish an important role for the firm by studying capital reallocation decisions of mutual fund firms. At least 30% of the value mutual fund managers add can be attributed to the firm's role in efficiently allocating capital amongst its mutual fund managers. We find no evidence of a...

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What Should I Be When I Grow Up? Occupations and Unemployment Over the Life Cycle

Gervais, Martin - 2014

Why is unemployment higher for younger individuals? We address this question in a frictional model of the labor market that features learning about occupational fit. In order to learn the occupation in which they are most productive, workers sample occupations over their careers. Because young...

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