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temporary migrants already in the country as sources of permanent immigration. An overview of key results in the literature on … emphasis on their advantages and disadvantages. The recent immigration policies of a number of major immigrant … and international students is discussed, as is and the recent emergence of two-step immigration policies that favor …
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To spur entrepreneurship and economic growth, an increasing number of countries have introduced immigration policies … this immigration policy increased the likelihood that U.S.-based immigrants have a start-up in Canada by 69%. Our results … communities in the origin location. Overall, our study unveils the importance of immigration policies in determining founding …
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We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions are...
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demand and technology, production expansion, and specialization of native workers as immigration rises. …
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Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand …
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contributors to the welfare system and whether migrants assimilate quickly. The key questions for the home country are whether … migrants return and who returns. The host country gains when unsuccessful migrants leave, while the home country may gain when … successful migrants leave. Empirical evidence reveals that both low-income-earning and high-income-earning migrants leave the …
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payments? Yes. But simply accumulating the annual fiscal transfers to and fiscal contributions by migrants is not sufficient to …
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low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage … negligible. -- Immigration ; Wage Distribution ; Occupation Groups ; Inequality …
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We study the long-run career mobility of young immigrants, mostly refugees, from Vietnam who moved to the United States during 1989-1995. This third and final migration wave of young Vietnamese immigrants was sparked by unexpected events that culminated in the Amerasian Homecoming Act....
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