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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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Soaring Minds: The Flight of Israel’s Economists

Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Despite their small number, Israeli economists have become an important fixture in the international academic scene. In recent years, this phenomenon has been characterized by an additional attribute: the number of Israelis who have chosen to leave the country’s universities - or not to return...

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Brain Drained: A Tale of Two Countries

Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper provides a comparative examination of how public universities in two countries, the United States and Israel, have evolved over the past few decades - and how differences between the two have culminated in a rate of academic brain drain from the latter to the former that is...

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The Effect of Mexican Workforce Migration on the Mexican Maquiladora Labor Market

Atkinson, Scott E.; Ibarra, Marilyn - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2007)

A great deal has been written about the effects of foreign migration on the wages of U.S. workers. However, little is … known about the effects of Mexican interstate immigration (i.e., internal Mexican migration) and international return … migration of labor and foreign capital on wages and employment in the maquiladora industry in Mexico. We examine these issues by …

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Migration and imperfect labor markets: Theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Brücker, Herbert; Hauptmann, Andreas; Jahn, Elke J.; … - In: European Economic Review 66 (2014) C, pp. 205-225

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare states. Institutions such as collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and...

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Chapter 10. Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions

Lewis, Ethan; Peri, Giovanni - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 625-685). 2015

In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more easily identified on local economies. The reason is that...

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Remittances and labor supply in post-conflict Tajikistan

Justino, Patricia; Shemyakina, Olga N. - In: IZA journal of labor & development 1 (2012), pp. 1-28

results are robust to different measures of remittances and migration. When we differentiate between regions by their exposure … do not have migrants, remittances have no effect on the labor supply by males, suggesting that migration and not …

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Freedom of movement for workers : relaxing immigration restrictions could greatly improve the well-being of people in developing countries, with little effect on wages

Kennan, John - 2014

Most developed countries have foreign aid programs that aim to alleviate poverty and foster economic growth in less developed countries, but with very limited success. A large body of evidence indicates that the root of the economic development problem is cross-country differences in the...

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The working hours of immigrants in Germany : temporary versus permanent

Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-15

Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating …

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Migration as an adjustment mechanism in the crisis? : a comparison of Europe and the United States

Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - 2014

The question of whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market is an important criterion for an … new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour market shocks. We find that recent migration flows have …

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