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Should I stay or should I go? Migration and job-skills mismatch among Italian doctoral recipients

Alfano, Vincenzo; D'Uva, Marcella; De Simone, Elina; … - 2019

’ selfselection into non-academic employment as well as the endogeneity of the migration choice. Results demonstrate that migration … seems to facilitate the possibility of finding better job opportunities. More specifically, only migration within the …

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Economic impact of STEM immigrant workers

Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas - 2018

STEM-focused industries are critical to the innovation-driven economy. As many firms are running short of STEM workers, international immigrants are increasingly recognized as a potential for high-tech job recruitment. This paper studies STEM occupations in Sweden 2011–2015 and tests...

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The Belt and Road Initiative. Demographic trends, labour markets and welfare systems of member countries

Bruni, Michele - 2019

migration flows in the amount and with the educational stricture coherent with their needs. However, such a process is extremely …

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A strictly economic explanation of gender roles: The lasting legacy of the plough.

Cigno, Alessandro - 2020

We show that the descendants of ancient farmers may have an interest in marrying among themselves, and thus maintaining the gendered division of labour, originally justified on comparative-advantage grounds by the advent of the plough, even after they emigrate to a modern industrial economy...

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“A Global City in a Global Pandemic: Assessing the Ongoing Impact of COVID Induced Trends on London’s Economic Sectors”

Anderson, Dylan; Hesketh, Rachel; Kleinman, Mark; … - 2020

Over the last 50 years, London has successfully adapted to technological change and globalization, making it the major driver of the UK economy. But its strengths have also made the city particularly vulnerable to the health impacts of COVID-19, and potentially also to wider negative economic...

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Social Barriers to Female Migration: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh

Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, M Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2020

Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of … using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are able to match with migrating grooms. Guided by a … theoretical model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets …

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Social Assimilation and Labor Market Outcomes of Migrants in China

Cai, Shu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020

Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and their adaption in the … migration process is likely to be quite different. The gap is closed by examining social assimilation and the effect on the …

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Climate Shocks, Migration, and Labor Markets: A Gender Analysis from West Africa

Elmallakh, Nelly; Wodon, Quentin - 2021

s the main migrant receiving country

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Social Networks and (Political) Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration

Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Zenou, Yves - 2022

This paper investigates the causal pathways through which ethnic social networks influence individual naturalization. Using the complete-count Census of 1930, we digitize information on the exact residence of newly arrived immigrants in New York City. This allows us to define networks with a...

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Immigrants and Trade Union Membership: Does Integration into Society and Workplace Play a Moderating Role?

Bedaso, Fenet Jima; Jirjahn, Uwe; Goerke, Laszlo - 2022

We hypothesize that incomplete integration into the workplace and society implies that immigrants are less likely to be union members than natives. Incomplete integration makes the usual mechanism for overcoming the collective action problem less effective. Using data from the Socio-Economic...

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