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Constant, Amelie F.; Nottmeyer, Olga; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2012

Circular migration receives increasing attention due to its empirical relevance and as a policy concept to manage labor … characteristics of circular movers worldwide and investigates the consequences of restrictive migration policies. Recent policy …

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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

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Does immigration policy affect the education-occupation mismatch? Evidence from Australia

Tani, Massimiliano - 2012

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced on 1st July 1999, on migrants' probability of being over-/under-educated or correctly matched. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements about age, language ability, education, and work...

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Selection policy and immigrants' remittance behaviour

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano - 2010

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after the policy change, which consists of stricter...

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Immigration policy and entrepreneurship

Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; … - 2011

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' probability of becoming entrepreneurs. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements and restrictions to welfare entitlements. The results indicate that those who...

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Scared straight? : threat and assimilation of refugees in Germany

Jaschke, Philipp; Sardoschau, Sulin; Tabellini, Marco - 2021

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European Labour Mobility : Challenges and Potentials

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004

-country migration policies across Europe and (ii) that the European Union needs to become an active player on the international labour …

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High Skilled Migration and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population

Epstein, Gil S.; Kunze, Astrid; Ward, Melanie E. - 2002

The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiralling demand for highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy debate as well as the economic literature. In this paper, we present empirical evidence from firm level data...

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Building a better H-1B Program

Sparber, Chad - 2015

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The impacts of international migration on remaining household members: omnibus results from a migration lottery program

Gibson, John; McKenzie, David; Stillman, Steven - 2009

The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining … migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity problem: households self-select into migration, and among households involved … in migration, some send a subset of members with the rest remaining whilst other households migrate en masse. We address …

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