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effect of social capital on migrants' employment outcomes and wages, especially for women. Distinguishing employment into … results suggest that promoting opportunities to create social capital has a beneficial effect on migrants' integration in the …
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Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, succeeds in selecting economically desirable immigrants and provides orderly management of population growth. But the point system cannot fix short-term skilled labor shortages...
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This paper studies occupational licensing as a possible cause of poor labour market outcomes among economic migrants …. These results do not change over time, after employers observe migrants' productivity and migrants familiarise with the … address the under-use of migrants' human capital. …
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This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …
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1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the … an ineffective policy tool to influence migrants' labour market outcomes. However, the economic relevance of making an … effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …
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This paper studies occupational licensing as a possible cause of poor labour market outcomes among economic migrants …. These results do not change over time, after employers observe migrants' productivity and migrants familiarise with the … address the under-use of migrants' human capital. …
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This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their … skills acquired by migrants while abroad is related to the activity chosen upon return and the duration of migration. The … developed and developing countries, the economic development of the latter will increasingly depend on migrants' ability to …
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