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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States

Jasso, Guillermina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic … components of ethnicity – country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion – among persons admitted to legal permanent …. India dominates EB-2 and European countries EB-1. (2) The ethnicity portfolio contains more languages than religions. (3 …

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The Slump and Immigration Policy in Europe

Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Historical experience suggests that when a period of rising immigration is followed by a sudden slump, this can trigger a policy backlash. This has not occurred in the current recession. This paper examines three links in the chain between the slump and immigration policy. First, although...

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Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment: What Immigration Policy Can Do!

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises two cohorts of immigrants that arrived in Australia around five years apart. There are two special...

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Immigration in a High Unemployment Economy: The Recent Danish Experience

Pedersen, Peder J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

The purpose in this paper is to survey the course of immigration into Denmark and research and studies related to the problems encountered in this area. The first part of the paper describes the actual flows of migrants in the most recent decades. The directly job-related part of migration...

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Liability-of-Foreignness Effects on Job Success of Immigrant Job Seekers

Fang, Tony; Samnani, Al-Karim; Novicevic, Milorad M.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We examined the liability-of-foreignness (LOF) hypothesis for immigrant and native job seekers by analyzing a national dataset that tracks their use of job-search methods and their associated job outcomes in the Canadian labor market. To our knowledge this is the first empirical test of LOF at...

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How Do E-Verify Mandates Affect Unauthorized Immigrant Workers?

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

workers' eligibility to work legally in the United States. Using data from the Current Population Survey, this study examines …

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The Impact of Temporary Protected Status on Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

disaster. Individuals with TPS cannot be deported and are allowed to stay and work in the United States temporarily. Despite … allow some unauthorized immigrants to receive temporary permission to remain and work in the United States. …

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The Rhetoric of Closed Borders: Quotas, Lax Enforcement and Illegal Migration

Facchini, Giovanni; Testa, Cecilia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper studies why illegal immigration is widespread. We develop a political agency model in which a politician decides on an immigration target and its enforcement, facing uncertainty on the supply of migrants. Illegal immigration can arise for two reasons: the policy maker may be unable to...

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Heaven's Swing Door: Endogenous Skills, Migration Networks and the Effectiveness of Quality-Selective Immigration Policies

Bertoli, Simone; Rapoport, Hillel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

A growing number of OECD countries are leaning toward adopting quality-selective immigration policies. The underlying assumption behind such policies is that more skill-selection should raise immigrants' average quality (or education level). This view tends to neglect two important dynamic...

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Immigration: High Skilled vs. Low Skilled Labor?

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This policy analysis paper explores the implications for the host country population of alternative immigration policies. The two immigration options considered are a policy based on admitting primarily high-skilled workers and another that has the effect of admitting primarily low-skilled...

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