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society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard …
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exogenous variation in both immigration flows and diversity induced by former settlements, WWI and the 1920s Immigration Acts …
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We study how random variation in the availability of highly educated, foreign-born workers impacts firm performance and recruitment behavior. We combine two rich data sources: 1) administrative employer-employee matched data from the US Census Bureau; and 2) firmlevel information on the first...
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I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants in general can reduce the average skill … attitudes. I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …
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An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in … whether and how the response of immigrants to skill demand changed when Switzerland abolished immigration restrictions for …
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An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in … whether and how the response of immigrants to skill demand changed when Switzerland abolished immigration restrictions for …
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The decision to encourage or restrict high-skilled immigration has long been controversial. Advocates argue that high …-skilled immigration is critical for firm competitiveness and innovation; critics argue that skilled immigrants displace native workers and …-skilled immigration policies on the offshoring of high-skilled jobs by US multinational companies using a unique matched firm …
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patterns in a multivariate context, attentive to selectivity processes and the Globalista impulse. -- Immigration policy … ; immigrant selection criteria ; employment immigration ; highly skilled immigration ; illegal immigration ; ethnicity ; race …
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This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity - country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
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This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants … misst, in der Sprache des Einwanderungslandes zu kommunizieren, in der Ansiedlungsentscheidung von Migranten Substitute … ethnischen Netzwerks einen positiven Einfluss auf die Ansiedlungsentscheidung von Migranten hat, während die linguistische …
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