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Using a point system for selecting immigrants : a point system can select economically desirable immigrants but it cannot prevente poor labor outcomes for immigrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2014
Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, succeeds in selecting economically desirable immigrants and provides orderly management of population growth. But the point system cannot fix short-term skilled labor shortages...
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Crime and immigration : do poor labor market opportunities lead to migrant crime?
Bell, Brian - 2014
Immigration is one of the most important policy debates in Western countries. However, one aspect of the debate is often mischaracterized by accusations that higher levels of immigration lead to higher levels of crime. The evidence, based on empirical studies of many countries, indicates that...
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Self-selection patterns among return migrants : Mexico 1990-2010
Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Lara, Jaime - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18
This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990–2010. To calculate … the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have … that the wages of return migrants are larger than those that the migrants would have obtained had they not migrated. …
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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wag...
Peri, Giovanni - 2014
Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers, but 30 years of empirical research provide little supporting evidence to this claim. Most studies for industrialized countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and...
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Income of immigrants and their return : both low- and high-income immigrants stay for a relatively short time
Bijwaard, Govert - 2015
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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Source country characteristics and immigrants’ optimal migration duration decision
Kırdar, Murat G. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-21
This paper examines how immigrants’ optimal migration duration in the host country responds to the purchasing power parity (ppp) and relative wages between the host and source countries. A theoretical model of joint migration duration and saving decisions reveals that the optimal migration...
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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 …, we explore how temporary migrants differ from permanent migrants in their labor supply decisions and behavior. After … correcting for endogeneity bias, male temporary migrants are found to work more hours than permanent ones. The effect for females …
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Which factors drive the skill-mix of migrants in the long-run?
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald - 2014
A pervasive, yet little acknowledged feature of international migration to developed countries is that newly arriving immigrants are increasingly highly skilled since the 1980s. This paper analyses the determinants of changes in the skill composition of immigrants using a framework suggested by...
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A global profile of emigrants to OECD countries : younger and more skilled migrants from more diverse countries
Aiglepierre, Rohen d'; David, Anda; Levionnois, Charlotte; … - 2020
This paper presents new findings on the main characteristics of immigrants living in OECD countries by country of origin, drawing from the updated Database on Immigrants in OECD Countries (DIOC) 2015/16. It describes migrant populations by country of destination and country of origin in 2015/16,...
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Multi-level governance for migrant integration : Policy instruments from Austria, Canada, France, Germany and Italy
OECD - 2022
Comprehensive and coordinated action across levels of government responsible for different policy domains (labour, education, housing and welfare/health) as well as across local actors is crucial to migrant integration. To respond to this need for co-ordination, different policy instruments are...
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