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High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe

Kahanec, Martin - 2011

Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to...

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Unemployment Benefits and Immigration : Evidence from the EU

Giulietti, Corrado - 2011

are not related to unemployment benefit generosity. This suggests that the so-called "welfare migration" debate is …

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Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union

Kahanec, Martin - 2012

have with little doubt exceeded any pecuniary and non-pecuniary costs of migration. In conclusion, the freedom of movement …

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The Effect of the H-1B Quota on the Employment and Selection of Foreign-Born Labor

Mayda, Anna Maria - 2018

The H-1B program allows skilled foreign-born individuals to work in the United States. The annual quota on new H-1B issuances fell from 195,000 to 65,000 for employees of most firms in fiscal year 2004. This cap did not apply to new employees of colleges, universities, and non-profit research...

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Occupational Recognition and Immigrant Labor Market Outcomes

Brücker, Herbert - 2019

In this paper, we analyze how the formal recognition of immigrants' foreign occupational qualifications affects their subsequent labor market outcomes. The empirical analysis is based on a novel German data set that links respondents' survey information to their administrative records, allowing...

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Substitution between Groups of Highly-Educated, Foreign-Born, H-1b Workers

Sparber, Chad - 2019

Highly-educated foreign-born workers can secure legal US employment through the H-1B program. The annual cap on H-1B issuances varies across individuals' US educational experience, H-1B work history, and employer type. Caps are met quickly in most but not all years. This paper exploits these...

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Migration in an Enlarged EU : A Challenging Solution?

Kahanec, Martin - 2009

. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as … analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are …

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How Immigration Grease is Affected by Economic, Institutional and Policy Contexts : Evidence from EU Labor Markets

Guzi, Martin - 2015

Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to test this hypothesis across various...

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The Free Movement of Workers in an Enlarged European Union : Institutional Underpinnings of Economic Adjustment

Kahanec, Martin - 2014

states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor market with more than half a billion people … states unevenly.This chapter studies whether and how east-west migration flows in an enlarged EU responded to institutional … and economic factors. We first develop a simple framework of adjustment through migration of workers between labor markets …

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Buying Lottery Tickets for Foreign Workers : Search Cost Externalities Induced by H-1b Policy

Sharma, Rishi; Sparber, Chad - 2021

The H-1B program allows firms in the United States to temporarily hire high-skilled foreign citizens. H-1B workers are highly concentrated among a small number of firms. We develop a theoretical model demonstrating that this phenomenon is an artifact of policy design: When the government...

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