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Economic impact of STEM immigrant workers

Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas - 2018

STEM-focused industries are critical to the innovation-driven economy. As many firms are running short of STEM workers, international immigrants are increasingly recognized as a potential for high-tech job recruitment. This paper studies STEM occupations in Sweden 2011–2015 and tests...

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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries

Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008

different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we find that migration within …

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Local Shocks and Internal Migration: The Disparate Effects of Robots and Chinese Imports in the US

Faber, Marius - 2021

Migration has long been considered one of the key mechanisms through which labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In … this paper, we analyze the migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US … for the different migration responses triggered by the two shocks. Next, we present a model where workers are …

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The Effect of Brexit on British Workers Living in the EU

Venâncio, Ana; dos Santos, João Pereira - 2022

The effect of Brexit is an important topic in the European and British political agendas. This study examines the perspective of the EU countries, with regards how British citizens working in an EU country reacted to the end of free movement of workers. Employing synthetic control methods and...

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Climate Shocks, Migration, and Labor Markets: A Gender Analysis from West Africa

Elmallakh, Nelly; Wodon, Quentin - 2021

s the main migrant receiving country

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The effect of Brexit on British workers living in the EU

Venâncio, Ana; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2022

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Not welcome anymore : the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees

Gamalerio, Matteo - 2018

Do electoral incentives affect immigration policies? I study this question in the setting of Italian municipalities making decisions about the reception of refugees. The localized control of the reception policy (SPRAR), combined with the exogenous timing of policy decisions and staggered...

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Dynamic Effects of Co-Ethnic Networks on Immigrants' Economic Success

Battisti, Michele; Peri, Giovanni; Romiti, Agnese - 2018

This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....

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Houses and/or jobs: Ownership and the labour market in Belgian districts

Isebaert, Daan; Heylen, Freddy; Smolders, Carine - 2011

In a number of papers A.J. Oswald (1996, 1997) argues that high rates of home ownership may imply inferior labour market outcomes. This paper tests the Oswald hypothesis in a panel of 42 Belgian districts since the 1970s. The use of data going back to 1970 allows us to embed the Oswald...

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The Role of Labor Market Institutions in the Impact of Immigration on Wages and Employment

Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Yasenov, Vasil - 2021

We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta-analysis approach. To accomplish this, we gather information on 1,030 previously estimated wage effects and 432 employment effects of immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18...

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