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matching between the existing demand and the Ph.D. holders' specialization. The aim of this paper is to test whether migrating … from some regions may improve job-education matching in Italy. The econometric strategy takes into account Ph.D. holders …' selfselection into non-academic employment as well as the endogeneity of the migration choice. Results demonstrate that migration …
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develop a theoretical search and matching model with two ethnic groups of workers (natives and immigrants), two search …
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This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that language learning in the EU is strongly associated with...
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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and their adaption in the … migration process is likely to be quite different. The gap is closed by examining social assimilation and the effect on the …
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international migration. Examining social identity and labor market outcomes in China, the country with the largest internal …
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robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …
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This paper shows that trade and emigration of skilled workers from a poor country is complementary but that between trade and emigration of unskilled workers is a substitute. The asymmetric effect of more openness to trade on the local wages seems to be crucial in driving such results. The...
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The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages … association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by … that the increased degree of positive assortative matching is mainly reached by high-productive firms "losing" lower …
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