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Selection policy and immigrants' remittance behaviour
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano - 2010
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after the policy change, which consists of stricter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275837
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The impact of the 1996 US Immigration Policy Reform (IIRIRA) on Mexican migrants' remittances
Vaira-Lucero, Matias; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2012
) on the remitting patterns of Mexican immigrants. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP128), we find that a … of the effect that migration policies have on remittance flows can lead to more informed policies that can transcend the … home security aspects that often dominate discussions about illegal migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282214
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Social capital and immigrants' labour market performance
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira Lucero, Matias - 2013
This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the principal component analysis (PCA) to build an index of social networks and explore its impact on the probability of getting a job and on wage levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293123
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English Skills and Early Labour Market Integration of Humanitarian Migrants
Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben; Jiang, Zhou; Taksa, Lucy; … - 2020
We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322527
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Labor Mobility and Innovation in Africa
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Okara, Assi; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022
We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product or process and carry out an empirical analysis with a focus on Africa using firm-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, as well as complementary country level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882580
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Immigration Policy and Remittance Behaviour
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Tchuente, Guy - 2017
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after the policy change, which consists of stricter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744639
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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira-Lucero, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyses the role of social capital on immigrants' labour market outcomes. We use the "principal component analysis" (PCA) to build an index of social networks and explore its impact on the probability of getting a job and on wage levels using the Households Income and Labour Dynamics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990925
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The Impact of the 1996 US Immigration Policy Reform (IIRIRA) on Mexican Migrants' Remittances
Vaira-Lucero, Matias; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
) on the remitting patterns of Mexican immigrants. Using data from the Mexican Migration Project (MMP128), we find that a … of the effect that migration policies have on remittance flows can lead to more informed policies that can transcend the … home security aspects that often dominate discussions about illegal migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279245
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Selection Policy and Immigrants' Remittance Behaviour
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after the policy change, which consists of stricter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457143
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Does Educational Mismatch Affect Emigration Behaviour?
Wanner, Philippe; Pecoraro, Marco; Tani, Massimiliano - 2021
the labour market and emigration decisions, carrying out the analysis for both Swiss native and previous immigrant workers …. In turn, migrants' decisions separate returning home from onward migration to a third country. We find that … undereducation is positively associated with the probability of emigration and return to the country of origin. In contrast, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012658137