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Labour force participation and employment of humanitarian migrants : evidence from the building a new life in Australia longitudinal data
Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben Zhe; Taksa, Lucy - 2017
between human capital and labour market participation and employment status among recently arrived/approved humanitarian … migrants. It includes attention to the heterogeneity of labour force participation and employment status across genders and … pre-immigration education, but it is positively related to having unpaid work experience and job searching skills in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119201
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The Impact of Remittances on Labour Force in Bangladesh : An Empirical Analysis of Labour Participation and Employment
Mannan, Dr Kazi Abdul; Kozlov, V.V - 2020
. Among the most important are the education variables which are highly significant and positive with regard to probability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014091303
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Liberalization of European migration and the immigration of skilled people to Sweden
Ejermo, Olof; Zheng, Yannu - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 5, pp. 1-25
’s innovation development. This paper examines the effects of the liberalization of migration on the skill composition of immigrants … immigrants’ education levels and probability of becoming an inventor, comparing immigrants from the EU-15 with those from other … migration costs associated with the EEA mainly stimulated migration from the lower end of the education distribution. …
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The impact of immigration on the employment dynamics of European regions
Edo, Anthony; Özgüzel, Cem - 2023
This paper provides the first evidence on the regional impact of immigration on native employment in a cross … of immigrants across European regions over the 2010-2019 period had a modest impact on the employment-to-population rate …-run estimates show adverse employment effects in response to immigration, while these effects disappear in the longer run. Second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014366785
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English skills and early labour market integration of humanitarian migrants
Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben Zhe; Jiang, Zhou; Taksa, Lucy; … - 2020
We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293794
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Ban on female migrant workers : skills-differentiated evidence from Sri Lanka
Weeraratne, Bilesha - 2021
, higher exposure to recruitment-related vulnerability, and lower foreign employment opportunities. The study also finds that …
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Full employment : a distant dream for Europe
Gill, Indermit Singh; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - 2013
innovation, and stabilize finance, Europe will have a vibrant economy, with high participation and full employment. …Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame … poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous distractions from real problems that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196447
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Full employment : a distant dream for Europe
Gill, Indermit; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-34
innovation, and stabilize finance, Europe will have a vibrant economy, with high participation and full employment. …Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame … poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous distractions from real problems that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251397
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Research and policy issues in high-skilled international migration : a perspective with data from the United States
Regets, Mark C. - 2001
Highly-skilled migrants are becoming a more important part of the world economy and of policy debates in a diverse set of countries. The proliferation of skills around the world, increases in world trade, the growth of R&D, and the general increase in the labor market demand for diverse sets of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011403829
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Using a point system for selecting immigrants : a point system can select economically desirable immigrants but it cannot prevente poor labor outcomes for immigrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2014
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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