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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration …
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-skilled labor, leading many European economists to argue for an immigration policy directed at actively recruiting highly qualified … workers from abroad. It has further been argued that an immigration policy that is tailored to attract young and economically … successful migrants can alleviate some of the demographic burden associated with an aging population. We embed this discussion …
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This paper analyzes whether immigrant families facing credit constraints adopt a family investment strategy wherein, upon arrival, an immigrant spouse invests in host country-specific human capital while the other partner works to finance the family's current consumption. Using data for West...
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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
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differences between temporary and permanent migrants. Utilizing household level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP … differences disappear, however, for temporary migrants, if their remittances are taken into account. Fixed effects estimations of …, indicating deficits in the long-term integration of permanent migrants in Germany …
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As in the U.S. and Canada, migration is a controversial issue in Europe. This paper explores the possibility that … immigration policy may affect the labor market assimilation of immigrants and hence natives' sentiments towards immigrants. It … immigration countries. Second, a new analysis of individual data from the OECD countries studies sentiments concerning immigration …
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domestic labor markets and the selection policies used to shape the nature of the immigration flow …
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