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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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In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...
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population education; better-educated migrants; and increased migration in high-skilled jobs. Four-fifths of long-run income … origin areas. Increased income from international labor migration not only benefits migrants themselves, but also fosters …
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Freedom of movement is considered a basic human right by the majority of countries of the world. As defined in practice …, largely as a result of the immense international differences in labor productivity that exist in the world today. As an … illustrative example, I estimate that migration from Mexico to the United States raises global income by an amount equivalent to …
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international migration affects the incomes of individuals in sending and receiving countries and of migrants themselves. Were a … social planner to choose the migration policies that would maximize global welfare, she would need to know, among other …
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Recent theoretical and empirical studies have emphasized the fact that the prospect of international migration … that temporary migration is widespread among highly skilled migrants (such as Eastern Europeans in Western Europe and … for return migration and which predicts who will migrate and who will return among agents with heterogeneous abilities. We …
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The rise in world trade since 1970 has raised international mobility of labor services. We study the effect of such a … globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output …
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World War I to the quotas and bans introduced afterwards was the result of a combination of factors: public hostility …
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This paper explores the emergence of a world economy since 1950 and its implications for the world's labor force. There …, the world economy is still in its adolescence. Rapid integration has occurred among the industrial economies, but … the industrial economies, but not in world income inequality as the income gap between the industrial and developing …
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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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