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use the EU Labour Force Survey to construct migration flows by skill and nationality across 17 countries for the period … 2002-2007. We then exploit the timing variation of the 2004 EU enlargement to estimate the elasticity of migration flows to … would have been worse off after the enlargement. We study even further the interaction effects between trade and migration …
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Using the National Survey of College Graduates, I investigate the degree to which holders of temporary work visas in the United States are mobile between employers. Holders of temporary work visas either have legal restrictions on their ability to change employers (particularly holders of...
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Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, their ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking...
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We explore the political economy of trade and migration policies in several models of international trade. We show that …
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their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further … implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select …
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migration. For each individual in the dataset, we both estimate the year of entry in the United States, the likely entry channel … analysis, we then provide exploratory estimates of the probability of return migration as a function of the conditions at … migration (age, education, patenting record, migration motives, and migration cohort) as well as of some activities undertaken …
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We exploit a unique historical setting to study the long-run effects of forced migration on investment in education …. After World War II, the Polish borders were redrawn, resulting in large-scale migration. Poles were forced to move from the … were no pre-WWII differences in education, Poles with a family history of forced migration are significantly more educated …
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The recruitment of foreign scientists enhances US science through an expanded workforce but could also cause harm by displacing better connected domestic scientists, thereby reducing localized knowledge spillovers. We develop a model in which a sufficient condition for the absence of overall...
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We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment substantially. Although many cross-border workers were highly...
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wall between the United States and Mexico from 2007 to 2010 affected migration. We use these effects to estimate a general …
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