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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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Immigrant assimilation and male labor market inequality

Mason, Patrick L. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 17, pp. 1-32

At the height of the US civil rights movement in the mid-1960s, foreign-born persons were less than 1 % of the African-American population (Kent, Popul Bull, 62:4, 2007). Today, 16 % of America’s African diaspora workforce consists of first- or second-generation immigrants and 4 % is Hispanic....

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Differences in employment outcomes for college town stayers and leavers

Winters, John V. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-22

New college graduates must choose whether to stay in the geographic area where they completed their degree or move to a new location to begin their careers. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as “college towns” and investigates differences in employment outcomes between college...

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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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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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Wage discrimination against immigrants : measurement with firm-level productivity data

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 15, pp. 1-24

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination against immigrants. We build on an identification strategy proposed by Bartolucci (Ind Labor Relat Rev 67(4):1166-1202, 2014) and address firm fixed effects and endogeneity...

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Skill composition of immigration flows and the measurement of education-occupation mismatch

Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 18, pp. 1-28

Recent papers have found that often immigrants are overqualified relative to native-born workers when comparing an individual’s education to the ‘average’ education in their occupation. We show that these results are sensitive to differences in the education distribution between immigrants...

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Ethnic discrimination and the migration of skilled labor

Docquier, Frédéric (contributor); … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Macroeconomic instability, migration, and the option value of education

Katz, Eliakim (contributor); Rapoport, Hillel (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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