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This paper examines empirically the relationship between under-employment and migration amongst five cohorts of … data indicate that there is a strong positive relationship between migration and graduate employment – those graduates who …. Versions of probit regression are used to estimate migration and graduate employment equations in order to explore the nature …
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Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to test this hypothesis across various...
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We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an internationally harmonized occupational status index (ISEI) that permits to quantify and properly analyze...
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In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions' reaction functions for different...
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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 the home country in jobs below their education...
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-migrants. Conditional on occupational skills, education and earnings no longer predict migration decisions. Differential labor …-to-skills measures in predicting migration. Results are persistent over time and hold within narrowly defined regional, sectoral, and …
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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...
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This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
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We test if migration leads to increased wages. We take the example of Polish migrants to the United Kingdom and focus …, utilizing the data from the UK and Polish labor force surveys. We find that while overall the returns to migration are low, they …
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post-immigration occupational matching – for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of …. However, surprisingly, neither matching nor language skills have any impact on the return to pre-immigration work experience …
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