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Immigration, Growth and Unemployment: Panel VAR Evidence from OECD Countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ …

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Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...

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Labor Mobility of Immigrants: Training, Experience, Language and Opportunities

Cohen, Sarit; Eckstein, Zvi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

This paper analyzes the labor mobility and human capital accumulation of male immigrants who moved from the former Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white-collar occupations, where the labor market randomly offered...

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Immigration, Unemployment and Growth in the Host Country: Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis on OECD Countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host …-2005 for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while in any country …, immigration does not cause unemployment. We also find that, in France, Iceland, Norway and United Kingdom, growth positively …

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Chinese Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market: Effects of Post-Tiananmen Immigration Policy

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline; Kerr, Emily - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

. Relative to immigrants from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea – countries not covered by the post-Tiananmen immigration policy … green card has a significant positive effect on skilled migrants' labor market outcomes. …

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Selection Policy and the Labour Market Outcomes of New Immigrants

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

achieving national objectives regarding immigration. These changes stem primarily from the belief that skill-based immigrants do …

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An Auction Model of Canadian Temporary Immigration for the 21st Century

DeVoretz, Don J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Temporary Canadian immigration has grown beyond traditional programs for students, caregivers and agricultural workers …

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Why Does Intermarriage Increase Immigrant Employment? The Role of Networks

Furtado, Delia; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Social networks are commonly understood to play a large role in the labor market success of immigrants. Using 2000 U.S. Census data, this paper examines whether access to native networks, as measured by marriage to a native, increases the probability of immigrant employment. We start by...

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Employment, Wages, and the Economic Cycle: Differences between Immigrants and Natives

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Vogel, Thorsten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two large immigrant receiving countries, Germany and the UK. We show that, despite large differences in their immigrant populations, there are similar and significant differences...

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The Effects of Naturalization on Immigrants’ Employment Probability (France, 1968–1999)

Fougère, Denis; Safi, Mirna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Naturalization is usually regarded as an important sign of civic and political integration amongst immigrants, but it can also be seen as a factor of their economic integration. The aim of this study is to analyze the naturalization phenomenon in France and examine its link with the...

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