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This paper develops a model and derives novel testable implications of referral-based job search networks in which employees provide employers with information about potential job market candidates that they otherwise would not have. Using unique matched employeremployee data that cover the...
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In deliberating whether to pursue an undergraduate education in the US, a foreign student takes into consideration the expected probability of securing US employment after graduation. The H-1B visa provides a primary means of legal employment for college-educated foreign-nationals. In October...
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Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in the US has largely focused on how influxes of foreign-born labor with little educational attainment have affected similarly-educated native-born workers. Fewer studies analyze the effect of immigration within the market for highly-educated...
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We use a gravity model of migration and alternative estimation strategies to analyse how income differentials affect …
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Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less-educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups are perfectly substitutable in production. In a simple model...
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With the fall of the Berlin Wall, ethnic Germans living in the former Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact countries were given the chance to migrate to Germany. Within 15 years, 2.8 million individuals moved. Upon arrival, these immigrants were exogenously allocated to different regions by the...
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This paper provides a comprehensive description of the nature and extent of ethnic segregation in Germany. Using matched employer-employee data for the universe of German workers over the period 1975 to 2008, I show that there is substantial ethnic segregation across both workplaces and...
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Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the human agent. Migration and … at many stages of an individual's migration. Differential returns to skills in origin- and destination country are a main … driver of migration. The economic success of the immigrant in the destination country is to a large extent determined by her …
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Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the human agent. Migration and … at many stages of an individual's migration. Differential returns to skills in origin- and destination country are a main … driver of migration. The economic success of the immigrant in the destination country is to a large extent determined by her …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317960