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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
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and country of origin/destination, for the years 1990 and 2000. Due to the much higher international mobility of college … inequality in all OECD countries. These results still hold true when we correct for the estimates of undocumented immigrants, for … the skill-downgrading of immigrants, when we focus on immigration from non-OECD countries, and when we consider …
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and country of origin/destination, for the years 1990 and 2000. Due to the much higher international mobility of college … inequality in all OECD countries. These results still hold true when we correct for the estimates of undocumented immigrants, for … the skill-downgrading of immigrants, when we focus on immigration from non-OECD countries, and when we consider …
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This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more...
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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 capital with two dimensions of immigration policy:...
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We survey the recent literature on the effects of active labor market policies on individual labor market outcomes like employment and income, for adult female individuals without work in European countries. We consider skill-training programs, monitoring and sanctions, job search assistance,...
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cornerstone of labor market policy. We analyze causal effects on the individual transition rate from unemployment to employment by …-parametric identification. The data cover the population and include multiple unemployment spells for many individuals. The results indicate a … diminishes after some weeks. When taking account of the time spent in the program, the effect on the mean unemployment duration …
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of robustness checks. Our results suggest that diversity among college-educated immigrants positively affects economic … R&D sector. The gains from diversity are maximized when immigrants originate from economically or culturally distant …
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This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided between a microeconomic section on the determinants of remittances and a macroeconomic section on their growth effects. At the micro level we first present in a fully harmonized...
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analysis relies on a computable general equilibrium model combining the major interactions between immigrants and natives … impact of immigrants. Finally, we also demonstrate that all generations would have benefited from a stronger selection of … immigrants. …
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