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Selective Immigration, Occupational Licensing, and Labour Market Outcomes of Foreign-Trained Migrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2018
This paper studies occupational licensing as a possible cause of poor labour market outcomes among economic migrants. The analysis uses panel data from Australia, which implements one of the world's largest selective immigration programmes, and applies both cross-sectional and panel estimators....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925502
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Immigrant Over- and Under-Education : The Role of Home Country Labour Market Experience
Piracha, Matloob - 2010
The cause of immigrant education mismatch in the host country labour market might not necessarily be discrimination or … imperfect transferability of human capital, as argued in previous studies. Immigrants who have gained professional experience in … and skills than those expected from their educational qualifications. Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136034
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Does Educational Mismatch Affect Emigration Behaviour?
Wanner, Philippe; Pecoraro, Marco; Tani, Massimiliano - 2023
selected relative to migrants emigrating to other countries. We also find that immigrants from a country outside the EU27/EFTA …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255969
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English Skills and Early Labour Market Integration of Humanitarian Migrants
Cheng, Zhiming - 2020
We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822460
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Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930913
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Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency
Nahm, Daehoon - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050617
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Labour Market Outcomes and Skill Acquisition in the Host Country : North African Migrants Returning Home from the European Union
Mahuteau, Stephane - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131162
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Business Visits and the Quest for External Knowledge
Tani, Massimiliano - 2011
employee carrying the visit out. The results support that labour mobility aimed at interacting can add to an organisation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131167