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experiment in Switzerland. We leverage the fact that refugees arriving in Switzerland originate from places that have large … exposure in both, the origin country and the destination region. Moreover, French (Italian) exposed refugees only benefit from …
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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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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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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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The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and...
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This paper studies occupational licensing as a possible cause of poor labour market outcomes among economic migrants …. These results do not change over time, after employers observe migrants' productivity and migrants familiarise with the … address the under-use of migrants' human capital. …
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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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migrants in the host country. A number of employment outcomes are examined including access to employment, access to stable … labour market integration of refugees in the host country. The paper highlights the differentiated impacts of these resources … on the refugees’ outcomes at six months and one year after arrival. …
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that refugees perform better than natives at the median wage, controlling for individual and firm characteristics. This …
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refugees changed the tasks performed by native workers and the amount of capital used by firms in Turkey. Despite the … unexpected nature of the refugee inflow, location choice of the refugees may be endogenous to the labor market opportunities of … Turkish regions to the Syrian ones. The results based on Labor Force Survey suggest that the inflow of refugees increased …
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