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Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Frattini, Tommaso - 2008

In the first part of this paper, we present a stylised model of the labour market impact of immigration. We then discuss mechanisms through which an economy can adjust to immigration: changes in factor prices, output mix and production technology. In the second part, we explain the problems of...

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Pulls of International Student Mobility

Kahanec, Martin - 2012

Economic theory suggests that high-skilled immigration generally has positive effects on the receiving economy. International student mobility is an important channel through which high-skilled immigrants arrive. The purpose of this paper is to identify some of the key determinants of...

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Migration in an enlarged EU: A challenging solution?

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as … analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are …

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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration

dustmann, christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2008

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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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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How Immigrants Helped EU Labor Markets to Adjust during the Great Recession

Kahanec, Martin; Guzi, Martin - 2017

with high-skilled immigrants with relatively few (1-5) or many (11+) years since migration. The relative responsiveness of … migration), whereas other groups of immigrants became particularly fluid during the Great Recession, such as those from new …

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The Economic Impact of East-West Migration on the European Union

Kahanec, Martin; Pytliková, Mariola - 2017

This study contributes to the literature on destination-country consequences of international migration with … member states over the years 1995-2010. Using a rich international migration dataset and an empirical model accounting for … the endogeneity of migration flows we find positive and significant effects of post-enlargement migration flows from new …

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The Value of H-1B Status in Times of Scarcity

Sparber, Chad - 2015

For-profit firms are limited in their ability to hire new, foreign-born, highly-educated workers after quotas on H-1B work permits are met each year, though they are able to hire existing H-1B workers. Universities and other non-profit research institutions do not face the same restrictions....

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Referral-based Job Search Networks

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Schönberg, Uta - 2011

This paper develops a model and derives novel testable implications of referral-based job search networks in which employees provide employers with information about potential job market candidates that they otherwise would not have. Using unique matched employeremployee data that cover the...

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Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - 2008

Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less-educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups are perfectly substitutable in production. In a simple model...

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