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Career placement of skilled migrants in the U.S. labor market : a dynamic approach
Neagu, Ileana Cristina - 2009
from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. Censuses, this study finds that the performance of migrants from countries with lower … initial occupational placement levels improves at a higher rate compared with that of migrants originating from countries with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394185
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The foreign-born population in the European Union and its contribution to national tax and benefit systems : some insights from recent household survey data
Barbone, Luca - 2009
2006 European Union Survey of Income and Living Conditions show that internal migrants are a relatively small share of the … as outside the European Union), this paper finds that migrants tend to include a concentration of both low as well as … highly educated workers. Both sets of migrants uniformly contribute to raising the working-age population of receiving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394193
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International migration, human capital, and entrepreneurship : evidence from Philippine migrants' exchange rate shocks
Yang, Dean - 2005
the economic prospects of overseas migrants affect origin-household investments-in particular, in child human capital and … lead to greater entry into relatively capital-intensive enterprises by migrants' origin households. "--World Bank web site …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522622
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Can guest worker schemes reduce illegal migration ?
Mattoo, Aaditya - 2006
"The authors analyze recent efforts at international cooperation to limit illegal migration, particularly through the use of legal migration avenues like guest worker schemes. They show that while guest worker schemes may be desirable as an avenue of international migration, they are an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522232
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Turning the Tide : Saving Fish and Fishers
World Bank - 2014
The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the first global assessment of the state of the world's ecological health, published in March 2005, identified global fisheries as one of fi ve global systems in critical condition. This paper is one of many studies that show how on local, regional, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560975
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Gender and poverty : / a life cycle approach to the analysis of the differences in gender outcomes
Lokshin, Michael - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523284
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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel - 2009
norms from migrants to their country of origin: a one percent decrease in the fertility norm to which migrants are exposed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394219
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Race, immigration, and the U.S. labor market : contrasting the outcomes of foreign born and native blacks
Walque, Damien de - 2008
"It is generally expected that immigrants do not fare as well as the native-born in the U.S. labor market. The literature also documents that Blacks experience lower labor market outcomes than Whites. This paper innovates by studying the interaction between race and immigration. The study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521022
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The Malaysia-Indonesia remittance corridor : making formal transfers the best option for women and undocumented migrants
Hernández-Coss, Raúl (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010521355
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The epidemiological impact of an HIV vaccine on the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Southern India
Nagelkerke, Nico J. D. - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523456