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significant effect on remittance flows from illegal migrants took place after the implementation of the IIRIRA. This is consistent … confirms previous research that conditions and policies in the host country affect migrants' remitting behaviour, and migrants …' motivations are not only altruistic but also self-interested. Given that migrants' remittances and their savings are important …
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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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The cause of immigrant education mismatch in the host country labour market might not necessarily be discrimination or imperfect transferability of human capital, as argued in previous studies. Immigrants who have gained professional experience in the home country in jobs below their education...
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This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced on 1st July 1999, on migrants …
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We study whether Australian employers recognise immigrants' education acquired abroad, and if so how. Using data from the Longitudinal Surveys of Immigrants in Australia, we apply interval regression to model migrant hourly earnings. We find substantially higher returns from human capital...
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significant effect on remittance flows from illegal migrants took place after the implementation of the IIRIRA. This is consistent … confirms previous research that conditions and policies in the host country affect migrants' remitting behaviour, and migrants …' motivations are not only altruistic but also self-interested. Given that migrants' remittances and their savings are important …
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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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This paper studies differences in the motivation to be self-employed between rural migrants and urban residents in …-stage methodology using the 2002 China Household Income Project (CHIP), reveal that rural migrants become self-employed to avoid low … type of employment and residence status) shows that higher hourly wages of paid and self-employed urbanites over migrants …
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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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