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Based on a welfare-maximization model of skilled migration where education generates a positive externality, this paper β€¦, welfare, the optimal education subsidy (𝑠), and a combination of 𝑠 and (the optimal) 𝐡𝑇, when residents' (emigrants β€¦') weight in the government's objective function is 1 (1 βˆ’ 𝛽), with 𝛽 πœ– [0,1]. I find that: i) education, welfare and 𝑠 β€¦
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gain (𝐡𝐺) have been studied extensively while 𝐴𝐷 has not, I examine migration's impact on ability (π‘Ž) as well as on β€¦; ii) Migration reduces (raises) home country residents' (migrants') average ability, with an ambiguous (positive) impact β€¦ fraction of our estimate. Thus, in order to correctly assess the impact of skilled migration, home and host countries β€¦
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Different interpretations of migration confront themselves in the political arena. Considering two factors, necessity β€¦ society of ghettos, and the society of reason. The first three share the ideological assumption that migration flows are β€¦
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improvement selfreported measures of native workers' health. These findings, together with the evidence that immigrants report β€¦ lower injury rates than natives, suggest that the reallocation of tasks could reduce overall health care costs and the human β€¦
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also migration pathways. We find that the likelihood of participating in the labour force is higher for those who had β€¦ Australia, and better health. β€¦
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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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This paper studies the extent to which sleep duration causally affects health, cognitive and noncognitive development β€¦ sleeping longer improves selected general developmental, behavioural and health outcomes in children and adolescents. By β€¦
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physical health and increased levels of depression during 2018 and 2019. Findings indicate that workers with no written β€¦/or threats in their present job experience worse physical health and increased levels of depression. The study found that the β€¦ without a job contract might experience a high degree of workplace precariousness and exclusion from health benefits and β€¦
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Previous research has found that immigration benefits the health of working-age natives, an effect mediated through the β€¦ labor market. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration also β€¦ affects the health of natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and β€¦
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Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the U.S. have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial...
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