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We examine the determinants of migrants’ choices of destination, employment, and remittances from one of the poorest … remittances sent back home to preserve households’ assets in marginal dry areas. …
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This article unravels the migrants' incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration different migration flows … destination combinations, which allows for detailed analysis of different migration flows. This provides an innovative multi …
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Recent papers have found that often immigrants are overqualified relative to native-born workers when comparing an individual’s education to the ‘average’ education in their occupation. We show that these results are sensitive to differences in the education distribution between immigrants...
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work experience, particularly that of education-occupation mismatch prior to migration.We show that type of work experience …
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after about ten years after the peak of migration wave. …
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Spouse's relative labor supply and the degree of specialization in intermarriage might differ from that in immigrant and native marriage for several reasons. Intermarried couples may specialize less due to smaller comparative advantages resulting from positive assortative mating by education,...
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Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …
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520 occupations for native-born workers and use it as the benchmark reflecting the "common" matching quality in Canadian … identically to the native born in terms of relatedness. Although the results show a significant and persistent poor matching …
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