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Optimal quota for sector-specific immigration
Mayr, Karin - 2008
always a substitute for native mobility across sectors. -- immigration ; political economy ; welfare ; sectoral mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009741042
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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Fertig, Michael - 2021
Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well … understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc … application to the case of EU-enlargement and the ensuing migration streams to be expected from Eastern Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321249
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Aggregate-level migration studies as a tool for forecasting future migration streams
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000
Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well … understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc … application to the case of EU-enlargement and the ensuing migration streams to be expected from Eastern Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001509838
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Optimal quota for sector-specific immigration
Mayr, Karin - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003733668
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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification based on nonparametric estimation
Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002
This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447106
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Immigration and careers of European workers : effects and the role of policies
Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - 2014
labor market. We find no evidence of an increased likelihood of non-employment or geographical mobility. We find that more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010373828
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Immigrant misallocation
Birinci, Serdar; Leibovici, Fernando; See, Kurt - 2021
We quantify the barriers that impede the integration of immigrants into foreign labor markets and investigate their aggregate implications. We develop a model of occupational choice with natives and immigrants of multiple types whose decisions are subject to wedges which distort their allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591285
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Immigration and careers of European workers : effects and the role of policies
Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-26
labor market. We find no evidence of an increased likelihood of non-employment or geographical mobility. We find that more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010209731
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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
The 2D:4D digit ratio, the ratio of the length of the 2nd digit to the length of the 4th digit, is often considered a proxy for testosterone exposure in utero. A recent study by Nicolaou et al. (2018) reported an association between the lefthand 2D:4D and self-employment (in a sample of about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207087
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The effect of low-skill immigration restrictions on US firms and workers : evidence from a randomized lottery
Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2022
The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013429412