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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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-migration sentiment could be a threat to internationalization, given that migrants can help lower the costs of internationalization. Since …
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We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneurship by being willing and able to … observationally equivalent natives. Areas with large numbers of immigrants may therefore lead to more entrepreneurship and innovation …
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labour market continues to raise concerns. Evidence across countries shows that migrants are more often over-educated than … natives. Over the last years, scholarship has intended to capture the effect of informal networks on migrants’ over …-occupation mismatch is well documented. This article has two objectives: it assesses the extent to which over-education affects migrants …
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capital or 'skill' s=s(a,h), for source country residents and migrants under a) the points system (PS) which accounts for h …) residents' (migrants') average ability, with an ambiguous (positive) impact on average education and skill, and net skill drain …
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how potential exposure to missionary activity impacts both English language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study uses the pooled files of the American...
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The health status of people is a precious commodity and central to economic, socio-political, and environmental dimensions of any country. Yet it is often the missing statistic in all general statistics, demographics, and presentations about the portrait of immigrants and natives. In this paper...
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This paper investigates the intergenerational effect of communication barriers on child health at birth using a natural experiment in Switzerland. We leverage the fact that refugees arriving in Switzerland originate from places that have large shares of French (or Italian) speakers for...
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An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...
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We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross-border transferability of occupational human capital. We then explore...
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