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difference-in-differences setup, we find that the number of migrants in the income range closely above the threshold more than … that the preferential tax scheme is highly effective in attracting more skilled migrants …
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Attracting skilled immigrants is emerging as an important policy goal for immigrant receiving countries. This article first discusses the economic rationale for immigrant selection. Selection mechanisms of receiving countries are reviewed in the context of deteriorating labor market outcomes for...
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find that there is some – albeit limited – evidence of firms using migrants to address high skill shortages. However, the … overwhelming majority of migrants are skilled or unskilled workers; a reflection of the low underlying rates of innovation and …
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The paper links finance theory to labor economics and political economy in the context of migration and immigration policy. Most research treating the impact of immigration has focused on the consequences for employees as measured by wages, earnings, and employment. Less is known about the...
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economy – and the role of high-skilled migrants in these processes. This paper surveys the emerging ‘wider impacts' literature …
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This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also...
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We measure selection of high-skilled migrants from Germany using predicted earnings. Migrants to less equal countries … are positively selected relative to non-migrants, while migrants to more equal countries are negatively selected … grades, and negative selection to more equal countries by university subject and gender. Migrants to the U.S. are highly …
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This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity - country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
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While there is debate regarding the magnitude of the impact, immigrant inflows are generally understood to depress wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the childcare industry, this paper examines whether...
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migrants experience worse labor market outcomes than other migrant groups, but current and potential migrants hold …
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