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This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the European Union at a time of increased economic integration. Using regional data from Eurostat's Regio database and the open web source Openflight for the period 1998-2010 we test...
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This paper investigates whether foreigners cushion native labour during the phases of the economic cycle. The theoretical model, based on the work of Blanchard and Katz (Brookings Papers on Economic Activity 0(1): 1-75, 1992), assumes that foreigners supply labour with a higher wage elasticity...
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This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after … existing evidence, time spent in Australia positively affects the probability to remit while in terms of regional effects …
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This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …' remittance behaviour. More precisely, we compare the remittance behaviour of two cohorts who entered Australia before and after … evidence, time spent in Australia positively affects the probability to remit while in terms of regional effects, South Asians …
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This paper studies the impact of international business trips on the stock of knowledge available to an economy. It develops a theoretical model to analyse the possible effects, and presents an empirical application using productivity data for a panel of twelve Australian industries during...
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the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression to model migrant hourly earnings. We … find substantially higher returns from human capital obtained in Australia and other OECD countries compared with non … immigrants from non-OECD countries are the ones who can gain the most from obtaining further education in Australia, and that …
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