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Types of Spatial Mobility and the Ethnic Context of Destination Neighbourhoods in Estonia

Mägi, Kadi - 2016

, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of …

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Challenged by Migration: Europe’s Options

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the … that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes with a crisis of European institutions in general. Migration and labor … survive or collapse even if it solves its migration challenge. But it will most likely collapse, if it fails to solve the …

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Return, Circular, and Onward Migration Decisions in a Knowledge Society

Constant, Amelie F. - 2019

, circular and onward migration of the highly-skilled migrants around the world. After it describes the status quo in the … knowledge economy and the international race for talent, it presents the relevant theories and concepts of migration in the … social sciences and how these theories accommodate the phenomena of return, repeat and onward migration. A special section is …

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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....

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Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - 2008

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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The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less- Educated Immigrant Flows into U.S. States

Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - 2012

We use a gravity model of migration and alternative estimation strategies to analyse how income differentials affect …

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Building a Better H-1B Program

Sparber, Chad - 2015

The H-1B program allows highly-educated foreign-born labor to temporarily work in the United States. Quotas restrict the number of labor force entrants, however. In many years, all available work permits were allocated by random lottery. This paper argues that an alternative distribution method...

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Highly-Educated Immigrants and Native Occupational Choice

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - 2008

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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Quotas and Quality: The Effect of H-1B Visa Restrictions on the Pool of Prospective Undergraduate Students from Abroad

Kato, Takao; Sparber, Chad - 2010

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 collegeeducated foreign-nationals. In October...

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Buying Lottery Tickets for Foreign Workers: Lost Quota Rents Induced by H-1B Policy

Sharma, Rishi; Sparber, Chad - 2022

The H-1B program allows firms in the United States to temporarily hire high skilled foreign citizens. The government restricts foreign labor inflows and therefore generates potential rents typical of a quota. However, the US allocates H-1B status by random lottery. We develop a theoretical model...

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