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Does Educational Mismatch Affect Emigration Behaviour?
Wanner, Philippe; Pecoraro, Marco; Tani, Massimiliano - 2023
the labour market and emigration decisions, carrying out the analysis for both Swiss native and previous immigrant workers … undereducation is positively associated with the probability of emigration and return to the country of origin. In contrast, the … reverse relationship is found between overeducation and emigration, especially among non-European immigrant workers. According …
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The Post-Enlargement Migration Experience in the Baltic Labor Markets
Hazans, Mihails - 2011
We use Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian LFS data (2002-2007) complemented with several other surveys to compare the profile of Baltic temporary workers abroad before and after EU accession with that of stayers and return migrants. Determinants of migration and return, as well as selection issues...
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The Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Emigration in OECD Countries
Docquier, Frédéric - 2012
In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the …, emigration had a negative effect on the wage of less educated native workers and it contributed to increase within country …
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Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus
Bertoli, Simone - 2010
Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe economic and financial crisis. This paper gathers individual-level data from Ecuador and the two main destinations of Ecuadorian migrants: The US and Spain. First, we provide a...
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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana D.; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2021
Starting in the 1980s, the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers partly due to the influx of Latin American immigrants in the past few decades. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some believe that...
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Historical Roots of Political Extremism : The Effects of Nazi Occupation of Italy
Fontana, Nicola - 2017
The Italian civil war and the Nazi occupation of Italy occurred at a critical juncture, just before the birth of a new democracy and when, for the first time in a generation, Italians were choosing political affiliations and forming political identities. In this paper we study how these...
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Education Promoted Secularization
Becker, Sascha O. - 2014
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
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The Impact of Education on Unemployment Incidence and Re-Employment Success : Evidence from the U.S. Labour Market
Riddell, W. Craig - 2011
This study investigates the causal effects of education on individuals' transitions between employment and unemployment, with particular focus on the extent to which education improves re-employment outcomes among unemployed workers. Given that positive correlations between education and labour...
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
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Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives : A Factor Proportions Approach
Ortega, Javier - 2011
This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962-1999. Combining large (up to 25%) extracts from six censuses and data from Labor Force Surveys, we exploit the variation in the immigrant share across education/experience cells...
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