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Romania relatively high rates of temporary migration might have positive long-run effects on average skills and wages … migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skill …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. Once we account for migration …
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. In turn, migrants' decisions separate returning home from onward migration to a third country. We find that … to the predictions of the traditional model of migration, based on self-selection, migrants returning home are positively … selected relative to migrants emigrating to other countries. We also find that immigrants from a country outside the EU27/EFTA …
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This paper examines the impact of the legal status of overseas migrants on their wages upon return to the home country …. Using unique data from Egypt, which allows us to distinguish between return migrants according to their type of … international migration, documented versus undocumented, we examine the impact of the illegal status on wages upon return. Relying …
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Using data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing in Australia, this paper investigates the determinants, and consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are...
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same linguistic background as natives. This, in turn, produced heterogeneous effects on natives wages and employment. While …
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Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
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The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …
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-experiment is a legal requirement for employers to demand native labor with infinite elasticity at the wage earned by migrants; the …
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attrition and missing wages are also addressed. Using German household panel surveys from 1984 to 2014 and home country …
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This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage/job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a...
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