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Brezis, Elise S. - 2016

Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and … presents a unified model, wherein the two migration decisions are combined into a single, unique model. This paper shows that …

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Public opinion and immigration : who favors employment discrimination against immigrants?

Cooray, Arusha; Marfouk, Abdeslam; Nazir, Maliha - 2018

Using information from the world values survey wave 6 containing information from 78,743 respondents in 53 countries, we examine the factors which influence respondents' answers to the question: "when jobs are scarce, should employers give priority to people of the country of origin rather than...

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Educational mismatches, technological change and unemployment : evidence from secondary and tertiary educated workers

Esposito, Piero; Scicchitano, Sergio - 2020

changes, to assess whether mismatch is a temporary or a permanent phenomenon. In the first case, as suggested by matching …

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Mobility of students and quality of higher education : an empirical analysis of the "Unified Brain Drain" model

Brezis, Elise S.; Soueri, Ariel - 2013

Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to … analyze the migration of individuals encompassing decisions already at the level of education. We present a "unified brain …" drain model that incorporates the decisions of an individual related to migration vis‐à‐vis both education and work. In the …

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Erasmus exchange program : a matter of (relatively) older students

Carlsson, Magnus; Fumarco, Luca; Gibbs, B. G. - 2020

This study contributes to the literature on long-term effects of relative age (i.e. age differences between classmates in compulsory school) by examining tertiary education outcomes. We investigate whether there is evidence of relative age effects on university students enrolled in the Erasmus...

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Migration and university education : an empirical (macro) link

Akkoyunlu, Şule; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022

and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-run relationships with the variables of interest in a migration model. Although the bounds testing procedure has advantages compared to …

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Migration and university education : an empirical (macro) link

Akkoyunlu, Şule; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2022

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Measuring labour differences between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background

Drydakis, Nick - 2017

Through a field study we measure differences in employment outcomes between natives, non-natives, and natives with an ethnic-minority background. It is suggested that the joint effect of productivity uncertainties and distastes against ethnic-minority groups should be higher for non-natives than...

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Do migrant students affect local students' academic achievements in urban China?

Wang, Haining; Cheng, Zhiming; Smyth, Russell - 2017

We examine the educational spillover effects of migrant students on local students' academic achievement in public middle schools in urban China. The identification of peer effects relies on idiosyncratic variation in the proportion of migrant students across classes within schools. We find that...

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The gendered impact of in-state tuition policies on undocumented immigrants' college enrollment, graduation, and employment

Averett, Susan; Bansak, Cynthia; Condon, Grace; … - 2023

Since 2001, about half of U.S. states have extended in-state college tuition benefits to undocumented immigrants. Some states have also offered financial aid, while others became more restrictive. Building on previous research, we exploit these additional policies, control for Deferred Action...

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