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Ability Drain: Size, Impact, and Comparison with Brain Drain under Alternative Immigration Policies

Schiff, Maurice - 2017

Ability drain's (AD) impact seems economically significant, with 30% of US Nobel laureates since 1906 being immigrants, and immigrants or their children founding 40% of Fortune 500 companies. Nonetheless, while brain drain (BD) and gain (BG) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine...

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Social Networks and Mental Health Outcomes: Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Experience

Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2019

Over the past two decades, more than 160 million Chinese rural workers have migrated to cities to work. They are separated from their familiar rural networks to work in an unfamiliar, and often hostile environment. Many of them thus face significant mental health challenges. This paper is the...

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Anti-Migration as a Threat to Internationalization? A Review of the Migration-Internationalization Literature

Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018

more control over immigration. The most recent US presidential election also focused on immigration. Anti …

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Identity and Labor Market Outcomes of Immigrants

Carillo, Maria Rosaria; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, … - 2021

host and home country have higher employment rates, while those who exclusively identify with the host country culture do …

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Population Adjustment to Asymmetric Labour Market Shocks in India: A Comparison to Europe and the United States at Two Different Regional Levels

Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022

waves to estimate how regional population reacts to asymmetric shocks. These shocks are measured by non-employment rates … most striking difference is that, in India, we do not find any significant reactions to asymmetric non-employment shocks at … regional shocks by adjusting up to a third of a regional non-employment shock through migration within two years. This is …

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Occupational Regulation, Institutions, and Migrants' Labor Market Outcomes

Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022

We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their representation among licensed, certified, and unionized workers. We provide evidence of a dual role of labor market institutions, which both screen workers based on unobservable...

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Residential responses to cyclones: New evidence from Australia

Nguyen, Ha Trong; Mitrou, Francis - 2024

By leveraging randomly timed exposure to local cyclones as natural experiments, this study pioneers a comprehensive causal analysis of cyclone impacts on residential outcomes among Australian individuals. Drawing upon over two decades of nationally representative longitudinal data from the...

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Retirement, housing mobility, downsizing and neighbourhood quality - A causal investigation

Nguyen, Ha Trong; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021

This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of retirement on housing choices. Our empirical strategy exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision and controls for time-invariant individual...

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Benefits and Costs of Brain and Ability Drain

Schiff, Maurice - 2024

'vetting' immigration system (e.g., US H-1B program), which accounts for 𝑠. Findings are: i) Education increases with ability …

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Erasmus Exchange Program - A Matter of (Relatively) Older Students

Carlsson, M.; Fumarco, L.; Gibbs, B. G. - 2020

This study contributes to the literature on long-term effects of relative age (i.e. age differences between classmates in compulsory school) by examining tertiary education outcomes. We investigate whether there is evidence of relative age effects on university students enrolled in the Erasmus...

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