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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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Human Capital and Earnings of Female Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

than women to gain admission on the basis of immigration criteria related to labor market considerations rather than family … female immigration flows. Therefore, our findings of similar patterns for men and women and of the key role played by … national origin both suggest that factors other than immigration policy per se are important contributors to the observed skill …

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Immigrant Selection and Short-Term Labour Market Outcomes by Visa Category

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper studies the efficacy of immigrant selection based on skill requirements in the Canadian context. The point system results in a much higher skill level than would otherwise be achieved by family preferences. This positive selection is achieved by directly selecting higher skilled...

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The Economic Diversity of Immigration Across the United States

Friedberg, Rachel; Jaeger, David A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

about the extent to which the character of immigration varies as well. There is much broader geographic variation in the … immigration, the presence of immigrant children in schools, and the effect of immigration on the age, sex, language, and …

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Citizenship, Co-ethnic Populations and Employment Probabilities of Immigrants in Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

the same period, immigration patterns by country of birth changed substantially, with an increasing number of immigrants …

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Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily because the United States receives a much larger share of...

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Immigration: The New Zealand Experience

Winkelmann, Rainer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

A history of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy is reviewed in this paper. Data from the 1981 and 1996 …

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The Economic Causes and Consequences of Canadian Citizenship

DeVoretz, Don J.; Pivnenko, Sergiy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Immigrants ascend to citizenship at differential rates in Canada. Why is this so? This paper investigates the economic costs and benefits derived from citizenship to rationalize the differential rates of citizenship ascension. Canadian earnings evidence confirms the sizable economic benefits of...

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Estimating the Return to Training and Occupational Experience: The Case of Female Immigrants

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Eckstein, Zvi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

Do government provided training programs benefit the participants and the society? We address this question in the context of female immigrants who first learn the new language and then choose between working or attending government provided training. Although theoretically training may have...

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Immigration Participation in Social Assistance Programs

Riphahn, Regina T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1998

The share of foreigners in the German social assistance program exceeds their population share and continues to grow. This study tests whether higher foreigner welfare dependence is due to foreign-native differences in behavior as opposed to exogenous characteristics. The determinants of welfare...

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