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This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
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Das heutige System der sozialen Mindestsicherung verhindert in Deutschland die Ausbildung eines Niedriglohnsektors …
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Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous...
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Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to test this hypothesis across various...
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This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK … for increased migration from the EaP countries to help fill skill gaps, it seems very unlikely that the UK will allow …
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We examine changes in migration to the UK in the period leading up to the Great Recession and in its immediate … aftermath. In so doing, we pay particular attention to the changing countries of origin of recent migration flows to the UK …, especially in relation to migration from other parts of the EU. The evolving patterns of migrants' socio-economic characteristics …
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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 posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably …
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We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing on internal migration in the U.S. We begin by … describing approaches to modelling individuals' migration decisions and equilibrium outcomes across local areas. Next, we … summarize evidence regarding the impact of migration on individuals' outcomes, implications of migration for local labor market …
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We study the effect of the Thousand Young Talents Program (TYTP) on the academic quality of return migrant scientists to China. Using a unique dataset of the top Chinese mathematics departments' new hires, we find that the program leads to considerable increases in measures of their educational...
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Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labor market shortages often associated with commodity booms,...
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