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Kennan, John - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 16 (2013) 2, pp. 1-1

There is a large body of evidence indicating that cross-country differences in income levels are associated with differences in productivity. If workers are much more productive in one country than in another, restrictions on immigration lead to large efficiency losses. The paper quantifies...

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Managing Migration through Conflicting Policies: an Option-theory Perspective

Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche "Marco Fanno", … - 2010

We try to determine whether it is better for a government to tighten or relax limits for immigrants in order to control migration inflows. To this end, we use a real option approach to migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be described as an irreversible investment...

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Over-education among A8 migrants in the UK

Campbell, Stuart - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2013

I present new evidence on the incidence and wage associations of over-education among migrants to the UK from the â€˜A8 … strategy to maximise the number of migrants drawn from the dataset over the period of interest, creating a survey sample of A8 … migrants of unprecedented size. I also use a new method of classifying education attained outside the UK, which takes account …

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The impact of education and host language skills on the labor market outcomes of immigrants in Spain

Swedberg, Pablo - In: Investigaciones de Economía de la Educación

capital of migrants. As a result, the nature of the immigrants’ labor market participation and their earnings are closely …

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Occupation–education mismatch of immigrant workers in Europe: Context and policies

Aleksynska, Mariya; Tritah, Ahmed - In: Economics of Education Review 36 (2013) C, pp. 229-244

This paper analyses occupational matching of immigrants from over seventy countries of origin to 22 European countries. Using European Social Survey for the years 2002–2009, we show that immigrants are more likely to be both under- and overeducated than the native born for the jobs that they...

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Immigrant economic assimilation: Evidence from UK longitudinal data between 1978 and 2006

Lemos, Sara - In: Labour Economics 24 (2013) C, pp. 339-353

Using the underexplored, sizeable and long Lifetime Labour Market Database (LLMDB) we estimate the immigrant–native earnings gap at entry and over time for the UK between 1978 and 2006. That is, we attempt to separately estimate cohort and assimilation effects. We also estimate the associated...

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Analyse des deutschen Zuwanderungssystems im Hinblick auf den Fachkräftebedarf im Mittelstand

Maaß, Frank; Icks, Annette - Institut für Mittelstandsforschung (IfM) Bonn - 2012

Die Politik in Deutschland setzt u. a. auf Zuwanderung von Hochqualifizierten aus Drittstaaten zur Schließung von Fachkräftelücken. Das Ziel der Studie ist es, geeignete Instrumente für eine derartige selektive Steuerung der Zuwanderung zu identifizieren. Die Studie untersucht die...

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Immigrant Selection in The OECD

Belot, Michèle; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

migrants from around 80 source countries who were observed as immigrants in each of 29 OECD countries in 2000/1. We develop a … estimate the determinants of the share of migrants from different source countries in each destination country’s immigrant …

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Settlement and migration patterns among immigrants in Norway

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - European Regional Science Association - 2014

The immigration to Norway has increased strongly since the turn of the millennium and especially since the eastward EU-enlargements. The aim of the paper is to investigate the regional settlement and migration patterns of immigrants mostly recognized by their reason of immigration. The...

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Immigration, Skill Heterogeneity and Qualification Mismatch

Liu, Xiangbo; Palivos, Theodore; Zhang, Xiaomeng - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We investigate the effects of US immigration on native workers in a search and matching environment that allows for skill heterogeneity, differential search cost, cross-skill matching and imperfect transferability of human capital across borders. We find that cross-skill matching benefits the...

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