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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

migration among those from countries with better quality school. In other words, it is the impact of origin country school …

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Quotas and quality: The effect of H-1B visa restrictions on the pool of prospective undergraduate students from abroad

Kato, Takao; Sparber, Chad - 2010

In deliberating whether to pursue an undergraduate education in the US, a foreign student takes into consideration the expected probability of securing US employment after graduation. The H-1B visa provides a primary means of legal employment for college-educated foreign-nationals. In October...

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The effects of 9/11 on attitudes toward immigration and the moderating role of education

Schüller, Simone - 2012

The major event of the 9/11 terror attacks is likely to have induced an increase in anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiments, not only among US residents but also beyond US borders. Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel and exploiting exogenous variation in interview...

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How Do Native and Migrant Workers Contribute to Innovation? A Study on France, Germany and the UK

Fassio, Claudio; Montobbio, Fabio; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015

This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in particular, on the contribution of migrant workers. We adopt...

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Migration and Diversity : Human versus Social Capital

Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - 2004

migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social … natives. Trade and both migration solutions reduce inequality between the populations of the two countries by the same amount …. In addition, trade and migration are not equivalent if social capital is present: the highest welfare is obtained with …

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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: the microdata show that more educated migrants remit more

Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David; Morten, Melanie; … - 2009

Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

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Occupational choice across generations

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2003

There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...

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Digging up Trenches: Populism, Selective Mobility, and the Political Polarization of Italian Municipalities

Bellodi, Luca; Docquier, Frédéric; Iandolo, Stefano; … - 2024

We study the effect of local exposure to populism on net population movements by citizenship status, gender, age and education level in the context of Italian municipalities. We present two research designs to estimate the causal effect of populist attitudes and politics. Initially, we use a...

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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

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A "Glass-Ceiling" Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...

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