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Ability Drain: Size, Impact, and Comparison with Brain Drain under Alternative Immigration Policies

Schiff, Maurice - 2017

) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h), and productive human …, and b) the 'vetting' system (VS) which accounts for s (e.g., US H-1B program). Findings are: i) Migration reduces (raises …

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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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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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Benefits and Costs of Brain and Ability Drain

Schiff, Maurice - 2024

gain (𝐵𝐺) have been studied extensively while 𝐴𝐷 has not, I examine migration's impact on ability (𝑎) as well as on …; ii) Migration reduces (raises) home country residents' (migrants') average ability, with an ambiguous (positive) impact … fraction of our estimate. Thus, in order to correctly assess the impact of skilled migration, home and host countries …

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Trade, Education, Governance and Distance: Impact on Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth in Asia and LAC

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2017

This paper examines the impact of North-South trade, education, governance and North-South distance, on technology diffusion and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in the South, focusing on LAC and East Asia over the 32 years before the Great Recession (1976-2007). Findings are: i) TFP rises...

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North-South Trade, Technology Diffusion and Productivity Growth: Are Small States Different?

Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2017

The economies of small developing states tend to be more fragile than those in large ones. This paper examines this issue in a dynamic context by focusing on the impact of education and North-South trade-related technology diffusion (NRD) on TFP growth in small and large states in the South. The...

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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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