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How immigrants helped EU labor markets to adjust during the Great Recession
Kahanec, Martin; Guzi, Martin - 2017
The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...
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Immigrant category of admission and the earnings of adults and children : how far does the apple fall?
Warman, Casey; Webb, Matthew; Worswick, Christopher - 2018
Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and the second generation have on average integrated very...
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Economic impact of STEM immigrant workers
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas - 2018
immigrants already employed, while the marginal effect on average firm wages is positively associated with the share of immigrant … STEM workers. We also document heterogeneity in the results, suggesting that European migrants are more attractive for new … recruitment, but non-EU migrants have the largest impact on wage determination. …
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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2021
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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International trade and labor market integration of immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
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Migration for development : from challenges to opportunities
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …. Policies in receiving developed countries towards migrants can enhance the positive impact of migration for development. Among … those are measures to support the early integration of migrants into the educational systems and in the labor markets …
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The healthy immigrant paradox and health convergence
Constant, Amelie - 2017
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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Do emigrants self-select along cultural traits? : evidence from the MENA countries
Docquier, Frédéric; Tansel, Aysıt; Turati, Riccardo - 2017
This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...
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Benefits and costs of brain and ability drain
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2024
education (ℎ) and productive human capital 𝑠 = 𝑠(𝑎, ℎ), both for home country residents and skilled migrants, under the …; ii) Migration reduces (raises) home country residents' (migrants') average ability, with an ambiguous (positive) impact … on the average level of ℎ and 𝑠; thus, migrants' average ability and education is higher than that of non-migrants; iii …
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Social contacts, Dutch language proficiency and immigrant economic performance in the Netherlands
Chiswick, Barry R.; Wang, Zhiling - 2019
-skill-transferability than for immigrants with high-skill-transferability, are stronger for economic migrants than for non-economic migrants, and …
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