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The Economics of Temporary Migrations
Dustmann, Christian - 2015
Many migrations are temporary – a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants' economic behavior, generating possible consequences for...
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Firms Left Behind : Emigration and Firm Productivity
Giesing, Yvonne - 2018
This paper establishes a causal link between the emigration of skilled workers and firm performance in source countries. Using firm-level panel data from ten Eastern European countries, we show that the emigration of skilled workers lowers firm total factor productivity. We exploit time,...
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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
individuals from acquiring human capital. Therefore, even if all individuals who acquired education remain in the home country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125698
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International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills
Patt, Alexander - 2017
We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through …-migrants. Conditional on occupational skills, education and earnings no longer predict migration decisions. Differential labor …-market returns to occupational skills explain the observed selection pattern and significantly outperform previously used returns …
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The Healthy Immigrant Paradox and Health Convergence
Constant, Amelie F. - 2017
insights into the Healthy Immigrant Paradox and the health assimilation of immigrants as we also elucidate selection and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012943173
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Guest-Worker Migration, Human Capital and Fertility
Azarnert, Leonid V. - CESifo - 2011
individuals from acquiring human capital. Therefore, even if all individuals who acquired education remain in the home country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009020797
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International Migration of Couples
Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2014
that runs against the intuition that family ties weaken self-selection. Secondary earners in couples are more weakly self …
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Repeated Selection with Heterogenous Individuals and Relative Age Effects
Dawid, Herbert; Mühlheusser, Gerd - CESifo - 2012
In contexts such as education and sports, skill-accumulation of individuals over time crucially depends on the amount … of training they receive, which is often allocated on the basis of repeated selection. We analyze optimal selection … determinant for performance differentials within cohorts. We find that the optimal policy is pro-competitive at later selection …
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Immigration and Internal Mobility in Canada
Beine, Michel A. R. - 2014
We analyze the impact of temporary foreign workers (TFWs) and permanent immigrants on interprovincial mobility in Canada. Particular attention is given to the Canadian program of TFWs that has intensified enormously over the last 30 years. Results of the empirical analysis are analyzed through...
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Genetic Distance and International Migrant Selection
Krieger, Tim - 2015
migrant selection. We analyze bilateral country-level education-specific migration stocks from 85 sending countries to the 15 …
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