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This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after the policy change, which consists of stricter...
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influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late …-education, occupational downgrading, and (self-reported) use of skills for male immigrants, who account for about 75% of the sample, while … they have a modest short-term positive impact on female immigrants. These results support the view that migration policy is …
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This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...
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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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This paper analyses immigrants' views about immigration, filling an important void in the immigration literature. In … particular, it explores the role of statistical discrimination as a cause of possible opposition to immigration in absence of … wave of the World Value Survey finding that successful immigrants in the US i.e. those in the highest socio-economic group …
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