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distributed. In addition, we find that econometric analysis supports our theoretical claims : the estimation of different growth …
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This study investigates whether young unemployed graduates who accept a job below their level of education accelerate or delay the transition into a job that matches their level of education. We adopt the Timing of Events approach to identify this dynamic treatment effect using monthly calendar...
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In this paper, we simulate the long-run effects of migrant flows on wages of high-skilled and low-skilled non-migrants … average wages and a worsening of their wage inequality because of emigration. Whereas, immigration had nearly equal but … economic outcomes, it follows that prevalent public fears in European countries are misplaced; immigration has had a positive …
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be granted to foreign-born workers. This choice is driven by the maximization of th net gains from immigration. We focus …
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We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a simple model of remittances interacting migrants' human … capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship …
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The paper investigates the link between the over-exposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their under-representation in jobs in contact with customers. We build a two-sector matching model with ethnic sector-specifc preferences, economy-wide employer discrimination, and...
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This paper takes advantage of the availability of rich panel data on the mobility of talented football players, and the performances of national leagues and teams to quantify the effect of the reduction in mobility restrictions, the 1995 Bosman rule, on global efficiency and cross-country...
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This paper studies equilibrium unemployment in a two-region economy where homogeneous workers and jobs are free to move and the housing market clears. Because of the Internet, searching for a job in another region without first migrating there is nowadays much simpler than in the past....
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The paper runs the customer discrimination test provided by Combes et al. (2013) on US data. This test is based on a two-sector matching model with racial sector-specific preferences or abilities, employer discrimination and customer discrimination. The strategy makes it possible to disentangle...
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The discourse concerning the mobility of human capital internationally typically evokes migratory patterns from poorer to relatively more wealthy countries and this focus is strongly reflected in the (brain drain) literature. This emphasis omits an important and as yet understudied aspect of the...
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