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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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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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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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Meta-analysis of empirical evidence on the labour market impacts of immigration

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2008

The increasing proportion of immigrants in the population of many countries has raised concerns about the 'absorption capacity' of the labour market, and fuelled extensive empirical research in countries that attract migrants. In previous papers we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical...

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Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001

Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily because the United States receives a much larger share of...

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International migration, ethnicity and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008

While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...

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How much does immigration boost innovation?

Hunt, Jennifer; Gauthier-Loiselle, Marjolaine - 2009

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual patenting behavior as well as state-level determinants of patenting. The 2003 National Survey of College Graduates shows that immigrants patent at double the native rate, and that...

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