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Fostering strong and relevant skills in Iceland
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; Brogi, Laura - 2019
Strong and relevant skills are vital for helping Iceland to adjust to rapidly changing technology and competition in the world economy and safeguard high prosperity and well-being. Many students, especially those with an immigration background, lack solid core skills and competences that weakens...
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Labor mobility and innovation in Africa
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Okara, Assi; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022
We develop a theoretical model to investigate whether short-term mobility differentially affects innovation in product …, and the United Nations. We find that labor mobility positively affects innovation: on average, a 10% increase in the flow … products/services or process, supporting the use of labor mobility as an effective mechanism to diffuse productive knowledge …
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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 …
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The dynamic implications of liberalizing global migration
Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - 2014
This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and education decisions. We identify bilateral...
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Phantom Services : Deflecting Migrant Workers in China
Chan, Alexsia T. - 2019
As China urbanizes, more migrants need and expect public services. Many municipalities, however, resist and undermine elements of the central government's urbanization strategy by deflecting demands for benefits instead of accepting or denying them outright. Urban authorities sometimes do so by...
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Immigration : How Does It Impact the Wages of Native Workers?
Gana, Rajaram - 2018
I have worried about the talk, in recent times, that immigrants hurt the wages of native workers in the host nation. If so, that is not a good outcome. Why should native workers lose out to immigrants? To come to terms with my worry, I began to experiment with a classic dataset on immigrants and...
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Data sources on migrants' labour market and education integration in Austria
Huber, Peter; Fink, Marian; Horvath, Gerard Thomas - 2020
As part of a larger research project, we survey existing data sets and research results on immigrants' integration success in Austria focusing on educational and labour market outcomes. We consider different registers as well as survey data available to researchers on a regular basis and compare...
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Elementary Facts About Immigration in Italy : What Do We Know About Immigration and its Impact?
Mariani, Rama Dasi - 2020
In the recent past, in Italy, immigration has been at the centre of academic and policy debates. Nonetheless, the still growing literature has focused mainly on the experience of old settlement countries and has mainly looked at single aspects of the phenomenon. In order to guide effective...
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Elementary facts about immigration in Italy : what do we know about immigration and its impact?
Mariani, Rama Dasi; Pasquini, Alessandra; Rosati, Furio … - 2020
on a new and larger sample of about 2,600 adults from the German Socioeconomic Panel-Innovation Sample (SOEP-IS). We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207087
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Elementary Facts About Immigration in Italy. What Do We Know About Immigration and its Impact
Mariani, Rama Dasi; Pasquini, Alessandra; Rosati, Furio … - 2020
In the recent past, in Italy, immigration has been at the centre of academic and policy debates. Nonetheless, the still growing literature has focused mainly on the experience of old settlement countries and has mainly looked at single aspects of the phenomenon. In order to guide effective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014096808