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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …

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A "Glass-Ceiling" Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the … human capital, for immigrants and natives, in explaining inter-occupational and intra-occupational earnings progression … mainly driven by intra-occupational earnings progression. Moreover, and contrary to what is observed for natives, we detect …

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Gender, Educational Attainment, and the Impact of Parental Migration on Children Left Behind

Antman, Francisca M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this...

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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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Migration as a Substitute for Informal Activities: Evidence from Tajikistan

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

How is migration related to informal activities? They may be complementary since new migrants may have difficulty finding employment in formal work, so many of them end up informally employed. Alternatively, migration and informality may be substitutes since migrants' incomes in their new...

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Do the Best Go West? An Analysis of the Self-Selection of Employed East-West Migrants in Germany

Brücker, Herbert; Trübswetter, Parvati - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Since the inequality of earnings in East Germany has approached West German levels in the late 1990s, the standard Roy …

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South-South Migration: The Impact of Nicaraguan Immigrants on Earnings, Inequality and Poverty in Costa Rica

Gindling, T. H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

the hypothesis that Nicaraguan migration to Costa Rica was an important factor contributing to falling earnings, increased …

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Self-Selection in Migration and Returns to Unobservable Skills

Dostie, Benoit; Léger, Pierre Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

migrate. We build a model in which individuals sort, in part, on potential earnings - where earnings across different …-specific characteristics (particularly earnings differentials) on physician location decisions. We find, among other things, that high …

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Pulls of International Student Mobility

Kahanec, Martin; Králiková, Renáta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

Economic theory suggests that high-skilled immigration generally has positive effects on the receiving economy. International student mobility is an important channel through which high-skilled immigrants arrive. The purpose of this paper is to identify some of the key determinants of...

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European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

European Union economies are pressed by (i) a demographic change that induces population ageing and a decline of the workforce, and (ii) a split labour market that is characterized by high levels of unemployment for low-skilled people and a simultaneous shortage of skilled workers. This lack of...

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