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High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration … bias in migration significantly increases welfare in most receiving countries. Moreover, due to a more efficient global … that more - not less - high-skilled migration would increase world welfare. …
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Global migration is heavily skill-biased, with tertiary-educated workers being four times more likely to migrate than … workers with a lower education. In this paper, we quantify the global impact of this skill bias in migration. Based on a … the skill bias in migration, while a small number of sending countries is significantly worse off. The negative effect in …
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High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration … bias in migration significantly increases welfare in most receiving countries. Moreover, due to a more efficient global … that more – not less – high-skilled migration would increase world welfare. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559703
High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration … bias in migration significantly increases welfare in most receiving countries. Moreover, due to a more efficient global … that more - not less - high-skilled migration would increase world welfare. …
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Global migration is heavily skill-biased, with tertiary-educated workers being four times more likely to migrate than … workers with a lower education. In this paper, we quantify the global impact of this skill bias in migration. Based on a … the skill bias in migration, while a small number of sending countries is significantly worse off. The negative effect in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012017562
We examine the impact of the Americanization of names on the labor market outcomes of migrants. We construct a novel longitudinal data set of naturalization records in which we track a complete sample of migrants who naturalize by 1930. We find that migrants who Americanized their names...
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Despite the ongoing dialogue on facilitating mobility between the European Union and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, very little is known about the magnitude and characteristics of migrants from these countries. This study aims to fill this gap by studying the size and assimilation...
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This paper investigates the causal pathways through which ethnic social networks influence individual naturalization. Using the complete-count Census of 1930, we digitize information on the exact residence of newly arrived immigrants in New York City. This allows us to define networks with a...
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