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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

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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...

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Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations

Docquier, Frédéric - 2006

origin countries, it also induces positive effects through various channels such as remittances, return migration, diaspora … praise the unambiguous benefits of unskilled migration for developing countries, my analysis suggests that a limited but …

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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358645

The Labour Market Impact of Immigration

dustmann, christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2008

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Remittances and inequality: A dynamic migration model

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Shen, I-Ling - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2006

We develop a model to study the effects of migration and remittances on inequality in the origin communities. While … inequality may be of opposite signs, suggesting that the dynamic relationship between migration/remittances and inequality may … offers a different interpretation from the usually assumed migration network effects. With no need to endogenize migration …

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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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Referral-based Job Search Networks

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Schönberg, Uta - 2011

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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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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