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human capital immigrants bring and their post-migration schooling and work decisions, our findings suggest the predominance …
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migrants from outside the EU-15 in Spain. Using our panel dataset we show that immigrants reduce around the half of the initial … associate the improvement in the skill of immigrants to a change in the composition of new entrants. An important mechanism … underlying the assimilation is the higher likelihood of recent immigrants in changing jobs among different sectors and firms, but …
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time, and can also have an impact on immigrant wages. The selection and admittance of increasingly well-educated immigrants … admittance of increasingly well-educated immigrants. …
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A growing body of research suggests that skilled immigrants, particularly those in the “STEM†fields (Science … skilled immigrants is a challenging task. While a point system modelled on the Australian and Canadian systems is held up as a … Worker (FSW) program is intended to effectively select immigrants based on their ability to establish themselves economically …
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Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary … externalities created by the influx of immigrants. Second, it presents a stylized model in which human capital accumulation and …
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desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants, given the deterioration in labour market outcomes over the …
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This paper studies the loss of human capital that emigration generates in the country of origin. To that end I estimate the human capital distribution of emigrants had they not migrated. Unlike previous studies, I take into account the selection of migrants in terms of unobserved characteristics...
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How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...
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This paper examines the extent to which human capital theory can explain observed wage differentials in the Russian Federation. Wage and income dispersion have increased markedly in Russia in the six years since the transition began. Some studies conclude that this is an indicator that Russian...
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