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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...

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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 - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 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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How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply?

dustmann, christian; Glitz, Albrecht - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011

In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...

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Referral-based Job Search Networks

dustmann, christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Schönberg, Uta - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 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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Highly-Educated Immigrants and Native Occupational Choice

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 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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The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less- Educated Immigrant Flows into U.S. States

Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

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

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Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages

Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 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 Labour Market Impact of Immigration: Quasi-Experimental Evidence

Glitz, Albrecht - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2006

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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Ethnic Segregation in Germany

Glitz, Albrecht - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

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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Migration and Education

dustmann, christian; Glitz, Albrecht - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011

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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