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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
geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264459
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The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration
Colas, Mark; Sachs, Dominik - 2021
immigration literature. Empirical quantifications for the U.S. reveal that the indirect fiscal benefit of one low … has previously been documented. This challenges the perception of low-skilled immigration as a fiscal burden …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315231
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Skilled Immigration, Task Allocation and the Innovation of Firms
Mayda, Anna Maria; Orefice, Gianluca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022
This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 and 2010, and investigates the underlying mechanism. We present district-level and firm-level estimates and address endogeneity using a modified version of the shift-share...
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The Effect of Recent Technological Change on US Immigration Policy
Brey, Björn - 2021
Did recent technological change, in the form of automation, affect immigration policy in the United States? I argue …-skill immigration. I formalise this hypothesis theoretically in a partial equilibrium model with constant elasticity of substitution in … which technology leads to employment polarization, and policy makers can vote on immigration legislation. I empirically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013211737
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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers : Evidence from a Randomized Lottery
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan G. - 2022
The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242159
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The Integration of Migrants in the German Labor Market: Evidence over 50 Years
Berbée, Paul; Stuhler, Jan - 2023
Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus, we study their labor market integration over the last 50 years and highlight differences to the US case. Although the employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline...
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What do we know about the relationship between regionalized aspects of the unemployment insurance system and internal migration in Canada?
Day, Kathleen M.; Winer, Stanley L. - 2011
The purpose of this paper is to critically review the past four decades of empirical research on the relationship between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada's unemployment insurance system. It has long been argued that because the Canadian insurance system is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274885
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The Indirect Fiscal Benefits of Low-Skilled Immigration
Colas, Mark; Sachs, Dominik - 2020
immigration literature. Empirical quantifications for the U.S. reveal that the indirect fiscal benefit of one low … has previously been documented. This challenges the perception of low-skilled immigration as a fiscal burden. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012314891
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Immigration and the Slope of the Labor Demand Curve: The Role of Firm Heterogeneity in a Model of Regional Labor Markets
Ariu, Andrea; Müller, Tobias; Nguyen, Tuan - 2023
natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and … migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two … wage adjustments. Second, the average native's wage can be partially sheltered from the negative effect of immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290254
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2015
is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531772