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Constant, Amelie (contributor); D'Agosto, Elena (contributor) - 2008

/Canada, the UK, and other EU countries. On average, the brainy Italians exhibit a higher predicted probability to go to the US …, having extra working experience from outside Italy predicts migration to other EU countries. Those who stay abroad …

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Job mismatches and labour market outcomes : panel evidence on australian university graduates

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; McGuinness, Séamus; O'Leary, Nigel - 2010

The interpretation of graduate mismatch manifested either as overeducation or as overskilling remains problematical. This paper uses annual panel information on both educational and skills mismatches uniquely found in the HILDA survey to analyse the relationship of both mismatches with pay, job...

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Brainy Africans to fortress Europe : for money or colonial vestiges?

Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2009

Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial...

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An expert stakeholder's view on European integration challenges

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010

The standard approach of analyzing gaps in social and labor market outcomes of different ethnic groups relies on analysis of statistical data about the affected groups. In this paper we go beyond this approach by measuring the views of expert stakeholders involved in minority integration. This...

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A "healthy immigrant effect" or a "sick immigrant effect"? : selection and policies matter

Constant, Amelie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2015

An extensive body of research related to immigrants in a variety of countries has documented a "healthy immigrant effect" (HIE). When immigrants arrive in the host country they are healthier than comparable native populations, but their health status may deteriorate with additional years in the...

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Determinants of regional differences in rates of overeducation in Europe

Davia Rodríguez, María Angeles; McGuinness, Séamus; … - 2016

has been implemented on a sample of region-yearly data drawn from the EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU …

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Examining the relationships between labour market mismatches, earnings and job satisfaction among immigrant graduates in Europe

McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - 2014

effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female …

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Sizing it up : labor migration lessons of the EU enlargement to 27

Constant, Amelie - 2011

While economists were pointing out the advantages of the EU enlargement, politicians and policymakers were raising … grave concerns about the significant political and economic differences between the newcomer states (EU12) and the "old … Europe" of EU15. The major point of apprehension was related to the labor markets. Visceral fear rendered more than one in …

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Deconstructing theories of overeducation in Europe : a wage decomposition approach

McGuinness, Séamus; Pouliakas, Konstantinos - 2016

workers in 28 EU countries, to decompose the wage penalty of overeducated workers. The ESJ survey allows for integration of a …

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Micro and macro determinants of health : older immigrants in Europe

Constant, Amelie; García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, … - 2014

We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to natives. We utilize the unique Survey of Health Aging and Retirement (SHARE) and augmented it with macroeconomic information on the 22 home countries and 16 host countries. Using...

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