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Return Migration of Foreign Students
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2013
these life course experiences on return differs by age at entry and gender …
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The Effect of the H-1B Quota on the Employment and Selection of Foreign-Born Labor
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2018
The H-1B program allows skilled foreign-born individuals to work in the United States. The annual quota on new H-1B issuances fell from 195,000 to 65,000 for employees of most firms in fiscal year 2004. This cap did not apply to new employees of colleges, universities, and non-profit research...
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Substitution between Groups of Highly-Educated, Foreign-Born, H-1b Workers
Sparber, Chad - 2019
Highly-educated foreign-born workers can secure legal US employment through the H-1B program. The annual cap on H-1B issuances varies across individuals' US educational experience, H-1B work history, and employer type. Caps are met quickly in most but not all years. This paper exploits these...
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Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance
Figlio, David N. - 2016
We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the US. Controlling for the quality of schools and individual characteristics, students from...
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Spillover Effects of Studying with Immigrant Students : A Quantile Regression Approach
Ohinata, Asako - 2014
We analyze how the share of immigrant children in the classroom affects the educational attainment of native Dutch children in terms of their language and math performance at the end of primary school. Our paper studies the spill-over effects at different parts of the test score distribution of...
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Revisiting the Complementarity between Educationand Training: The Role of Personality, Working Tasksand Firm Effects
Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
this paper is to analyze previouslyunconsidered characteristics, in particular, personality traits and tasks performed at …
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Minimum Wage Channels of Adjustment
Hirsch, Barry T. - 2011
precisely measure the MW compliance cost for each restaurant. We examine a broad range of adjustment channels in addition to … three years. Cost increases were instead absorbed through other channels of adjustment, including higher prices, lower …
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Rural Households in a Changing Climate
Baez, Javier - 2012
This paper argues that climate change poses two distinct, if related, sets of challenges for poor rural households: challenges related to the increasing frequency and severity of weather shocks and challenges related to long-term shifts in temperature, rainfall patterns, water availability, and...
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How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply?
Dustmann, Christian - 2012
distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units … supply shocks do not induce factor price changes in the tradable sector. In this sector, most of the adjustment to changes in … exit the market are an important additional channel of adjustment. Finally, we demonstrate that an industry level analysis …
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How Fast Do Wages Adjust to Human-Capital Productivity? Dynamic Panel-Data Evidence from Belgium, Denmark and Finland
Andini, Corrado - 2009
the Mincer equation where no equality is imposed but an adjustment between observed and potential earnings is allowed to … dynamic panel-data wage equation and provide measures of the speed of adjustment in Belgium, Denmark and Finland. Further, we …-bargaining model and argue that a micro-founded model can fit the data better than a simple adjustment model but requires more …
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