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Labour immigration and union strength
Finseraas, Henning; Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål - 2018
research on immigration, political behaviour and collective action. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011895394
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Optimal education policy and human capital accumulation in the context of brain drain
Djajić, Slobodan; Docquier, Frédéric; Michael, Michael S. - 2018
. As a further contribution, we study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of the host country and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011910685
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The dynamics of power in labor markets : monopolistic unions versus monopsonistic employers
Samuel Dodini, Samuel; Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willén, … - 2022
This paper brings together the modern research on employer power and employee power by empirically examining the effects of unionization on worker earnings, employment, and inequality across differently concentrated markets. Exploiting national tax reforms to union membership dues as exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013415467
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Skilled migration policy and the labour market performance of immigrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2017
effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785580
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Wage flexibility in a unionized economy with stable wage dispersion
Carlsson, Mikael; Häkkinen Skans, Iida; Nordström … - 2019
The paper estimates how wages respond to changes in regional unemployment using detailed Swedish micro data. The study is set in an economy with close to complete union coverage where real wages have grown continuously in all parts of the wage distribution for the past 15 years, and where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973148
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A comparative analysis of the labour market performance of university‐educated immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States : does policy matter?
Clarke, Andrew; Ferrer, Ana M.; Skuterud, Mikal - 2018
weekly earnings of male university-educated immigrants in all three countries concomitant with skilled immigration policy … immigrants. Given that there is increasingly little to distinguish the skilled immigration policies of these countries, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798252
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New directions in immigration policy : Canada's evolving approach to the selection of economic immigrants
Ferrer, Ana M.; Picot, Garnett; Riddell, William Craig - 2014
Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a … market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire to shift immigration away from the three largest … cities to other regions of the country. These goals reflect the implementation of new immigration programs in the 2000s. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442319
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Selective immigration policies, migrants' education and welfare at origin
Bertoli, Simone; Brücker, Herbert - 2010
Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase … selective immigration policies reduce social welfare at origin. -- international migration ; selective immigration policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314274
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Worker power, immigrant sorting, and firm dynamics
Silliman, Mikko; Willén, Alexander - 2024
This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets - immigrants and unions - to examine the role of worker power in shaping immigrant sorting across firms, and how that subsequently influences the performance of firms and the careers of incumbent workers. First, unions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046077
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Evaluating immigration policy : potentials and limitations
Fertig, Michael - 2002
framework for the evaluation of key elements of immigration policy. To this end, the fundamental ingredients of evaluating … policy interventions are explained and the specific case of immigration policy is analyzed. It becomes transparent that the … evaluation of the effect of immigration policy is a particularly complex task since it requires unusually strong assumptions to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406630