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Genetic distance and international migrant selection
Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2015 - This version: July 2015
migration for low-skilled migrants. Results are robust to the inclusion of sending and destination country fixed effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300374
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Why Is the Roy-Borjas model unable to predict international migrant selection on education? : evidence from urban and rural mexico
Leopold, Stephan; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023
The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014320684
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Does labor protection increase support for immigration? : evidence from Switzerland
Bächli, Mirjam; Tsankova, Teodora - 2021
What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised by both academics and policy makers. We study the role of labor protection in shaping native preferences over migration policies. We look at Swiss national votes which took...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652730
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A macro-level analysis of adult-age language learning
Übelmesser, Silke; Weingarten, Severin - 2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011663341
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Legalization and long-term outcomes of immigrant workers
Deiana, Claudio; Giua, Ludovica; Nisticò, Roberto - 2024
This paper establishes a new fact about immigration policies: legalization has long-term effects on formal employment of undocumented immigrants and their assimilation. We exploit the broad amnesty enacted in Italy in 2002 together with rich survey data collected in 2011 on a representative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014505371
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The impact of technological change on immigration and immigrants
Giesing, Yvonne - 2023
We study the effects of technological change on immigration flows as well as the labor market outcomes of migrants … highly automated economy and the main destination for migrants in Europe. We apply an instrumental variable strategy and … identify how robots decrease the wage of migrants across all skill groups, while neither having a significant impact on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014450779
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Immigrants' contribution to innovativeness : evidence from a non-selective immigration country
Candel-Haug, Katharina; Cuntz, Alexander; Falck, Oliver - 2018
The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe. We analyze Polish immigration in the context of the 2004 enlargement of the European Union and find a positive and significant spillover effect of the immigrants on the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942898
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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024
We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014632347
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The impact of a possible trump reelection on Mexican immigration pressures in alternative countries
Beine, Michel; Bierlaire, Michel; Paschalidis, Evangelos; … - 2024
migrants. We use migration aspiration data from the Gallup World Poll Surveys which provide the preferred location choices of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014576955
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735974