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Public pensions and immigration policy when voters are differently skilled

Krieger, Tim - EconWPA - 2004

Although immigration of workers generates a positive externality on members of domestic pension systems, many countries … effects from immigration as well. …

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Effects of Business Cycles on Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003

covering the period 1979 to 1997. The results suggest that the deterioration in the assimilation of recent immigrants is partly … inclusion of controls for macro conditions, the significance and magnitude of the coefficient measuring assimilation increases …. Therefore, not only the estimated cohort effects bur also the assimilation profiles are sensitive to the inclusion of controls …

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Are Immigrants Positively or Negatively Selected? The Role of Immigrant Selection Criteria and Self-Selection

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003

This paper specifies and estimates a structural model of international migration using micro data. This provides a direct test of human capital theory that suggests that individuals respond to the earnings differentials across countries while making their migration decisions. The paper specifies...

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Effects of Business Cycles on Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003

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Explaining the Deteriorating Entry Earnings of Canada’s Immigrant

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Skuterud, Mikal - EconWPA - 2004

The study explores causes of the deterioration in entry earnings of Canadian immigrant cohorts by estimating an empirical specification that nests a number of competing explanations found in the Canadian literature. To do this, we use the pooled sample of Canadian-born and immigrant men employed...

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Does Commuting Reduce Wage Disparities?

Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

This paper shows that in the Baltic countries, commuting reduces urban- rural wage and employment disparities and increases national output. To quantify the effect of commuting on wage differentials, two sets of earnings functions are estimated (based on Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Labor...

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Education, Job Search and Migration

Basker, Emek - EconWPA - 2003

Job-search and migration behavior differ across educational groups. In this paper, I explore several differences between the migration and search behavior of workers with different levels of education, both theoretically and empirically. I start with two stylized facts. First, the propensity to...

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Educated Preferences: Explaining Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe

Hainmueller, Jens; Hiscox, Michael J. - EconWPA - 2005

Recent studies of individual attitudes toward immigration emphasize concerns about labor market competition as a potent … immigration available from the 2003 European Social Survey. In contrast to predictions based upon conventional arguments about … labor market competition, which anticipate that individuals will oppose immigration of workers with similar skills to their …

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IMMIGRANTS IN SPAIN: SKILLS ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT. A REGIONAL STUDY.

Díaz-Emparanza, Ignacio; Espinosa, Alexandra M. - EconWPA - 2001

. The immigration flows could be considered an appropriate mechanism to contribute to the de- velopment of origin countries … (attending a school), if the immigration police only authorizes very short migration. …

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The Effect of Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure on Recent Immigrants' Earnings

Lubotsky, Darren - EconWPA - 2001

Since recent immigrants tend to earn less than natives, their relative labor market status has been adversely impacted by an increase in the return to labor market skills and widening wage inequality over the past two decades. To evaluate the magnitude of this effect, this study uses Social...

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