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The paper investigates the demographic alternatives for dealing with the projected population aging and low or negative growth of the population and labor force in the North. Without further immigration, the total labor force in Europe and Russia, the high-income countries of East Asia and the...
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Marriage patterns of immigrants are an important indicator of the degree of immigrant integration into their host countries. Literature on the economics of the household has focused on the role of the sex-ratio as an important determining factor in marriage market outcomes. Therefore, it is...
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This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for the period 1980-2006. We also collect data on...
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For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research...
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influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late … 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the …
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administrative data to examine the impacts of female eligibility age increases in Australia, we find little evidence of this. Instead …
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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 … existing evidence, time spent in Australia positively affects the probability to remit while in terms of regional effects …
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This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants … some existing evidence, time spent in Australia positively affects the probability to become self-employed. We discuss the …
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Three decades ago most immigrants to Australia with work entitlements came as permanent settlers. Today the annual … early years in Australia, they have substantially reduced full-time employment and substantially increased part …
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Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises two cohorts of immigrants that arrived in … Australia around five years apart. There are two special features of these data that provide the framework for analysis. First …, the visa class under which the immigrants entered Australia is known from administrative records. Second, between the two …
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