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Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom

Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017

The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms...

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Explaining spatial patterns of foreign employment in Germany

Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2017 - This version: February 12, 2017

migration determinants are not necessarily the same for workers of different nationalities, we explain spatial patterns not only … for total foreign employment but also for the 35 most important migration countries to Germany. Based on a total census … for all 402 districts in Germany, we find a large heterogeneity in migration determinants between nationalities. We …

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Migration policy : lessons from cooperatives

Osterloh, Margit; Frey, Bruno S. - 2017

We propose an immigration policy based on the model of cooperatives. Incoming migrants have to acquire a participation certificate. In exchange, the immigrants may enter the country of choice without danger. The revenue goes to the country of the recipient nation rather than to human smugglers....

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The fiscal effect of immigration : reducing bias in influential estimates

Clemens, Michael A. - 2021

Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But mainstream methods to estimate these effects are problematic. Methods based on cash-flow accounting offer precision at the cost of bias; methods based on general equilibrium modeling address bias...

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The impact of natives' attitudes towards immigrants on their integration in the host country

Schilling, Pia; Stillman, Steven - 2021

Exploiting the random allocation of asylum seekers to different locations in Germany, we study the impact of right-wing voting on refugees' integration. We find that in municipalities with more voting for the right-wing AfD, refugees have worse economic and social integration. These impacts are...

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Age, intentions and the implicit role of out-selection factors of international migration

Beine, Michel - 2020

In this paper, I propose to isolate the role of age as a self-selection factor of international migration. The role of … age is estimated on intended emigration rather than on observed outcomes of migration, using individual measures of … observed outcomes of migration, suggesting that out-selection factors interact with age and shape the demographic profile of …

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Manpower constraints and corporate policies

D'Acunto, Francesco; Weber, Michael; Yang, Shuyao - 2020

Manpower constraints are the pervasive lack of specialized high- and low-skill workers, irrespective of the wage firms might offer. For a panel of German firms, we show manpower-constrained firms have higher capacity utilization and longer backlog of orders (measured in months). They are more...

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The labor market integration of refugee migrants in high-income countries

Brell, Courtney; Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - 2020

We provide an overview of the integration of refugees into the labor markets of a number of high-income countries. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform differently in a host country's labor market, we examine...

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Time-space dynamics of return and circular migration : theories and evidence

Constant, Amelie - 2020

migration by bringing together the perspectives of the host and the home country. In this endeavor, it reviewed and evaluated … phenomena of return, circular and onward migration. It emphasized commonalities and compared differences in findings, while … heterogeneous people and cannot conform under one theory or empirical study. Their de facto migration comportment can be understood …

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Weather shocks and migration intentions in Western Africa : insights from a multilevel analysis

Bertoli, Simone; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020

) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for … conditions, migration perceptions, or adaptation capabilities. We find that droughts are associated with a higher probability of … migration intentions in Senegal, Niger and Ivory Coast. The effect on international migration intentions are only significant in …

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