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The demand for high-skilled workers and immigration policy
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kunze, Astrid - 2004
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261769
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The Demand for High-skilled Workers and Immigration Policy
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kunze, Astrid - 2003
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261016
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The Demand for High-Skilled Workers and Immigration Policy
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761634
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Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments towards Immigrants: Evidence from 12 OECD-Countries
Bauer, Thomas K.; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000
As in the U.S. and Canada, migration is a controversial issue in Europe. This paper explores the possibility that … migration and contribute to a better economic performance of the respective countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262395
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Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262689
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What are Migration Networks?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000
Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant?s country in the host region. Using … Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272878
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Herd Effects or Migration Networks? The Location Choice of Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2002
Mexican Migration Project data. Our empirical results show that both network externalities and herds have significant effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272879
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Portuguese Migrants in the German Labor Market: Performance and Self-Selection
Bauer, Thomas K.; Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Vogler, Michael; … - 1998
Using a large new dataset, we analyze the labor market performance of Portuguese workers in Germany. While previous work compares wages and characteristics of migrants only to those of the natives, we match the data also with an equivalent survey from the sending country. We find that Portuguese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276188
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Immigration policy, assimilation of immigrants and natives' sentiments towards immigrants : evidence from 12 OECD-countries
Bauer, Thomas K.; Lofstrom, Magnus; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000
As in the U.S. and Canada, migration is a controversial issue in Europe. This paper explores the possibility that … migration and contribute to a better economic performance of the respective countries. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336856
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What are migration networks?
Bauer, Thomas K.; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2000
Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using … Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011339098