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Immigration, skill mix, and capital skill complementarity
Lewis, Ethan - In: The quarterly journal of economics 126 (2011) 2, pp. 1029-1069
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The labor demand curve is downward sloping : reexaming the impact of immigration on the lobaor market
Borjas, George J. - In: The quarterly journal of economics 118 (2003) 4, pp. 1335-1374
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Estimating the Return to Training and Occupational Experience : The Case of Female Immigrants
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Eckstein, Zvi - 2004
that training has no significant impact on the mean offered wage in bluecollar occupation, but training increases the mean … offered wage in white-collar occupation by 19 percent. Training also substantially increases the job offer rates in both …
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Occupational attainment and immigrant economic progress in Australia
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2008
Using data from the 2001 Australian Census of Population and Housing, on adult men in full-time employment, this paper augments a conventional human capital earnings function with information on occupations. It also estimates models of occupational attainment. The results from both the earnings...
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Education and Self-Employment: South Asian Immigrants in the US Labor Market
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - 2014
% less chance of being self-employed than one without. In addition, we show that factors such as longer stay in USA and being …
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Education and Self-Employment: South Asian Immigrants in the US Labor Market
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
% less chance of being self-employed than one without. In addition, we show that factors such as longer stay in USA and being …
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Immigration and trade creation for the US: The role of immigrant occupation
Mundra, Kusum - 2012
varies with the immigrants' occupation. Using a sample of 63 U.S. trading partners which are also big immigrant sending … countries over the years 1991-2000, this paper finds that the immigrant trade elasticity for the no occupation group is similar … occupation significantly increases the trade elasticity for Rauch's referenced price and differentiated commodities and this …
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Using a census to assess the reliability of a national household survey for migration research: the case of Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Kelly, Elish - 2008
Much research has been conducted on immigration into Ireland in recent years using data from the Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS), the official source for labour market data in Ireland. As it is known that the QNHS undercounts immigrants in Ireland, a concern exists over whether the...
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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions: consequences for the German labor market
Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...
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East-West Trade and Migration: The Austro-German Case
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and Eastern Europe has played an important role in this development. The derived labor market consequences are not fully clear so far. This paper presents the results of econometric...
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