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Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to...
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Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe … Ecuadorian migrants: The US and Spain. First, we provide a careful description of the main characteristics of migration flows … countries, and attempt to reconcile the features of migration flows with our predictions for earnings by destination. We find …
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A number of states have adopted laws that require employers to use the federal government's E-Verify program to check workers' eligibility to work legally in the United States. Using data from the Current Population Survey, this study examines whether such laws affect labor market outcomes among...
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for potential out-migration, we find that the wage effects disappear and less-skilled employment of previous Latin … this region. This highlights the importance of controlling for out-migration not only of natives but also of previous …
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The legal system has entered the immigration policy framework via class action suits which force immigrant receiving countries to address shortfalls in their immigration and citizenship ascension policies. This paper addresses the role of class action lawsuits in the Canadian context
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The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled both to offer solutions to Syrian refugees and to efficiently allocate costs across...
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This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy …-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed countries. We utilize free-movement within the EU to examine … the free migration regime and compare that to immigration into the EU from two other groups, developed and developing …
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This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK … increased migration from the EaP countries to help fill skill gaps, it seems very unlikely that the UK will allow large numbers …
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This paper studies the costs and benefits of the adoption of the policy of free movement for workers. For the countries to agree on uncontrolled movement of workers, the short run costs must be outweighed by the long term benefits that result from better labor market flexibility and income...
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This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we … compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for … our destination countries over this period. Second, we extend the empirical model of migration choice across multiple …
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