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STEM-focused industries are critical to the innovation-driven economy. As many firms are running short of STEM workers, international immigrants are increasingly recognized as a potential for high-tech job recruitment. This paper studies STEM occupations in Sweden 2011-2015 and tests hypotheses...
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We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and … work is found to have an unambiguously positive impact on their earnings (2% on average). Second, for foreign-born workers …
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language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … model and their labor market earnings using the human capital earnings function that is estimated with an ordinary least … earnings, and those from countries with a greater concentration of Catholic missionaries exhibit lower levels of both, compared …
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' selfselection into non-academic employment as well as the endogeneity of the migration choice. Results demonstrate that migration … seems to facilitate the possibility of finding better job opportunities. More specifically, only migration within the …
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) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h), and productive human …, and b) the 'vetting' system (VS) which accounts for s (e.g., US H-1B program). Findings are: i) Migration reduces (raises …
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Over the last 50 years, London has successfully adapted to technological change and globalization, making it the major driver of the UK economy. But its strengths have also made the city particularly vulnerable to the health impacts of COVID-19, and potentially also to wider negative economic...
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I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration …. I describe the new post-Brexit system, and review studies which attempt to estimate both the impact on future migration …
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, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and preferred destination choices. We find that individuals who intend to …
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To study the causal impact of smartphone use on academic performance, we collected - for the first time worldwide - longitudinal data on students' smartphone use and educational performance. For three consecutive years we surveyed all students attending classes in eleven different study...
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We study whether living in a student room as a tertiary education student (instead of commuting between one's parental residence and college or university) affects exam results. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to study this relationship beyond cross-sectional analysis. That is, we...
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