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Heaven's Swing Door: Endogenous skills, migration networks and the effectiveness of quality-selective immigration policies
Bertoli, Simone; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013
view tends to neglect two important dynamic e ffects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants …' quality, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks …-equivalent migration costs by education level relate to networks. The results imply that the relationship between networks and immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532881
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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Frattini, Tommaso - 2008
In the first part of this paper, we present a stylised model of the labour market impact of immigration. We then discuss mechanisms through which an economy can adjust to immigration: changes in factor prices, output mix and production technology. In the second part, we explain the problems of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533050
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Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus
Bertoli, Simone; Moraga, Jesus Fernandez-Huertas; … - 2010
Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe … Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a careful description of the main characteristics of migration flows … countries, and attempt to reconcile the features of migration flows with our predictions for earnings by destination. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533054
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Assessing the Fiscal Costs and Benefits of A8 Migration to the UK
Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso; Halls, Caroline - 2009
This paper assesses the fiscal consequences of migration to the UK from the Central and Eastern European countries that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533059
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Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010
Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe … Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a careful description of the main characteristics of migration flows … countries, and attempt to reconcile the features of migration flows with our predictions for earnings by destination. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317970
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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration
dustmann, christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2008
In the first part of this paper, we present a stylised model of the labour market impact of immigration. We then discuss mechanisms through which an economy can adjust to immigration: changes in factor prices, output mix and production technology. In the second part, we explain the problems of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967949
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Heaven's Swing Door: Endogenous skills, migration networks and the effectiveness of quality-selective immigration policies
Bertoli, Simone; Rapoport, Hillel - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2013
view tends to neglect two important dynamic effects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants' quality …, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks and … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895132
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The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2021
evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants' careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our … analysis highlights a novel form of selective return migration where those who plan to stay longer invest more into skill …. Finally, our model provides important insight for the design of migration policies, showing that policies which initially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532680
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Real Exchange Rates and the Earnings of Immigrants
Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin; Surovtseva, Tanya - 2021
Higher price levels in the destination relative to the origin increase the effective real wages of immigrants, thereby affecting immigrants' reservation and entry wages as well as their subsequent career trajectories. Based on micro-level longitudinal administrative data from Germany and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532727
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The Value of H-1B Status in Times of Scarcity
Sparber, Chad - 2015
For-profit firms are limited in their ability to hire new, foreign-born, highly-educated workers after quotas on H-1B work permits are met each year, though they are able to hire existing H-1B workers. Universities and other non-profit research institutions do not face the same restrictions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532748