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Source Country Characteristics and Immigrants' Migration Duration and Saving Decisions
Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2010
This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to the purchasing power parity (ppp) and the wage ratio between the host and source countries. It is shown that in theory immigrants may stay longer in the host country as a result of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144383
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy : Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118275
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Split Decisions : Family Finance When a Policy Discontinuity Allocates Overseas Work
Clemens, Michael A. - 2012
Labor markets are increasingly global. Overseas work can enrich households but also split them geographically, with ambiguous net effects on decisions about work, investment, and education. These net effects, and their mechanisms, are poorly understood. We study a policy discontinuity in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096767
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The Role of Income and Immigration Policies in Attracting International Migrants
Ortega, Francesc - 2012
destinations developed by Grogger and Hanson (2011) by allowing for unobserved individual heterogeneity between migrants and non-migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104662
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Employment Effects of Low-Skilled Immigrants in Korea
Kim, Jungho - 2013
This study examines the impact of inflows of foreign workers on Korean natives' economic performance – namely, employment – through the Employment Permit System, the basis of Korea's system by which to introduce low-skilled immigrants. Using National Employment Insurance data, analyses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084659
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On the Potential Interaction between Labour Market Institutions and Immigration Policies
Cigagna, Claudia - 2015
Using data on migration flows for a sample of 15 OECD countries over the period 1980-2006, we analyse the effect of unemployment and labour institutions such as employment protection legislation, coverage of unemployment benefits, minimum wages, union power and tax wedge on migration flows. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023016
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New Directions in Immigration Policy : Canada's Evolving Approach to the Selection of Economic Immigrants
Ferrer, Ana M. - 2014
Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labor market shortages often associated with commodity booms,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042968
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Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2018
1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the … an ineffective policy tool to influence migrants' labour market outcomes. However, the economic relevance of making an … effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930913
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Equipping Immigrants : Migration Flows and Capital Movements
Lange, Fabian; Gollin, Douglas - 2021
deficits and the matching capital inflows are responses to international flows of labor. Migrants must be equipped with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317118
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Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments Towards Immigrants : Evidence from 12 Oecd-Countries
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bauer, Thomas K.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2021
and the determinants of these sentiments is presented. Natives in countries that receive predominantly refugee migrants …. Natives in countries with mostly economic migrants are relatively more concerned about loosing jobs to immigrants. However …
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