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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2000
criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …
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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
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Wage growth through job hopping in China
Ariga, Kenn; Ohtake, Fumio; Sasaki, Masaru; Wu, Zheren - 2012
disadvantage in urban labor market is compensated by their higher job mobility. After four jobs, the expected earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291448
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South-south migration: the impact of Nicaraguan immigrants on earnings, inequality and poverty in Costa Rica
Gindling, T. H. - 2008
the hypothesis that Nicaraguan migration to Costa Rica was an important factor contributing to falling earnings, increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268669
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A "glass-ceiling" effect for immigrants in the Italian labour market?
Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - 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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Jewish Occupational Selection : Education, Restrictions, or Minorities?
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - 2004
This paper documents the major features of Jewish economic history in the first millennium to explain the distinctive occupational selection of the Jewish people into urban, skilled occupations. We show that many Jews entered urban occupations in the eighth-ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire...
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Migration and Diversity : Human versus Social Capital
Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - 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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From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History
Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - 2003
Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade, finance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred between the seventh and the ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire and then it spread to other locations. We...
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Integration, mobility, and human capital formation
Haupt, Alexander; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2010
In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...
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Wage Differentials and International Trade in Italy Using Individual Micro Data 1991-1996
Falzoni, Anna M.; Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2004
In this paper we use individual micro data on workers combined with industry and regional data to study the dynamics of the wage differential between skilled and unskilled workers in Italy in the period 1991-1996. Being different to previous empirical studies, our data allow us to explore in a...
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