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decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the destination countries and how immigration affects …. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration on the host societies by showing that growing up in high immigration area … increases intergenerational income mobility among natives and by showing that immigration may, under specific circumstances …
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decades, it is important to know both how migrants integrate into the host countries and how immigration affects natives …-based tracking of children into different school types impede migrant integration. Chapters 4 and 5 cover the effect of immigration … on the host societies by showing that growing up in high immigration area increases intergenerational income mobility …
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We investigate international migration choices of high-skilled individuals and measure migrant selection using predicted earnings. High-skilled migrants select to destinations as predicted by Borjas' (1987) model of migration choices. Migrants to less equal countries are positively selected,...
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Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on unique...
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This paper looks at the e ffect of cultural barriers on the skill selection of international migration. The data covers bilateral migration stocks by skill level in 2000 from about 99 sending countries to the main 15 destination countries. We use genetic distance as a proxy for cultural distance...
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The current literature that investigates the selection of Mexican migrants to the United States focuses on selectivity in educational attainment and earnings. Notably absent from the literature is evidence on occupational selection, because it is unclear how to measure the skill content of...
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Knowledge management is a vital source of sustainable competitive advantage in all social areas, including health care. In this paper, we present insight into previous knowledge of students of health care related to the management domain and their expectations regarding what they aim to gain at...
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. Intriguingly, returns to skills are systematically lower in countries with higher union density, stricter employment protection …
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