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High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to … Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to be expected. A review of current immigration policies shows that … despite a number of positive recent developments Europe lacks a consistent strategy to address this challenge effectively …
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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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The Slump and Immigration Policy in Europe
Hatton, Timothy J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
recession for Europe as a whole, attitudes to immigration have not changed very much, and they have been influenced more by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959796
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Does Immigration Policy Affect the Education-Occupation Mismatch? Evidence from Australia
Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced on 1st July 1999, on migrants' probability of being over-/under-educated or correctly matched. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements about age, language ability, education, and work...
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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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Skill Based Immigrant Selection and Labor Market Outcomes by Visa Category
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
Attracting skilled immigrants is emerging as an important policy goal for immigrant receiving countries. This article first discusses the economic rationale for immigrant selection. Selection mechanisms of receiving countries are reviewed in the context of deteriorating labor market outcomes for...
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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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Give Me Your Wired and Your Highly Skilled: Measuring the Impact of Immigration Policy on Employers and Shareholders
Lin, Carl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The paper links finance theory to labor economics and political economy in the context of migration and immigration policy. Most research treating the impact of immigration has focused on the consequences for employees as measured by wages, earnings, and employment. Less is known about the...
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Immigration Policy and Entrepreneurship
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The results indicate that those who...
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
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 model of remittances interacting migrants' human capital with two dimensions of immigration policy:...
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