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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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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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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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Migration and Diversity: Human versus Social Capital

Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...

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Differences in Employment Outcomes for College Town Stayers and Leavers

Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as "college towns" and investigates differences in employment...

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Why Are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000-2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...

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Acquiring Human Capital through the Generations by Migration

Smith, James P.; Delaney, Liam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Our focus will be on the role of migration to the United States from a set of important European sending countries as a device for improving the human capital of the children and grandchildren of migrants as measured by their education. In this paper, we derive a new and conceptual more...

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New Directions in Immigration Policy: Canada's Evolving Approach to the Selection of Economic Immigrants

Ferrer, Ana; Picot, Garnett; Riddell, W. Craig - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labor market shortages often associated with commodity booms,...

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The Production and Stock of College Graduates for U.S. States

Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The stock of human capital in an area is important for regional economic growth and development. However, highly educated workers are often quite mobile and there is a concern that public investments in college graduates may not benefit the state if the college graduates leave the state after...

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