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This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their decisions about the choice of activity upon returning and the duration of migration. The theoretical model builds on Dustmann (1999), Dustmann and Kirchkamp (1992) and Mesnard...
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An increasing international applicability of a given type of education encourages students to invest more effort when studying. Governments, on the other hand, face an incentive to divert the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education toward country-specific...
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effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …
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from the EU that resulted, and then the recent more dramatic exodus of foreign-born residents during the covid-19 pandemic …
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We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an internationally harmonized occupational status index (ISEI) that permits to quantify and properly analyze...
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This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 … immigrant share across education/experience cells and over time to identify the impact of immigration. In the Borjas (2003 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the …
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Destination countries are progressively shifting towards selective immigration policies. These can effectively increase … selective immigration policies reduce social welfare at origin …
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This paper examines the speed of the occupational adjustment of immigrants using Labour Force Surveys 2004 and 2005 from Statistics Netherlands. The analysis provides new evidence that immigrants start with jobs at the lower levels of skill distribution. Their occupational achievement improves...
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This article studies the effect of immigration on house prices in the UK. It finds that immigration has a negative … population. Natives respond to immigration by moving to different areas and those who leave are at the top of the wage … immigration on house prices is driven by local areas where immigrants have lower education …
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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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