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We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … suggest that care should be exercised when applying this method as inaccurate impressions of the impact of immigration on …
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Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a … market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire to shift immigration away from the three largest … cities to other regions of the country. These goals reflect the implementation of new immigration programs in the 2000s. The …
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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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Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on … the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship … of immigration are consistently insignificant or significantly positive. The results are robust to various specifications …
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diversity in the schooling accomplishments among different immigrant sub-groups and between legal and undocumented migrants. I …
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This paper first presents a brief historical overview of immigration in Europe. We then provide (and distinguishing …
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The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...
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In the recent past, in Italy, immigration has been at the centre of academic and policy debates. Nonetheless, the still … the phenomenon. In order to guide effective policy intervention, we offer an exhaustive view of immigration in Italy. We …
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immigration selection procedures, these differences are rationalized on the basis of a proposed single and double selection theory …
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This paper reports findings from a Vancouver study which examines the settlement and adaptation experience of Chinese immigrants in Vancouver. The study reveals that non-economic reasons, such as the environment, education and citizenship, constituted the primary motivations for Chinese...
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