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Occupation-specific south-north migration
Heuer, Nina - 2010
This paper presents occupation-specific data on south-north migration around the year 2000 using employment data for developing sending and OECD receiving countries from ILO and OECD. These data reveal that the incidence of south-north migration was highest among professionals, one of the two...
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Immigrants and the Portuguese labor market : threat or advantage?
Ghasemi, Parisa; Teixeira, Paulino; Carreira, Carlos - 2024
Portugal between 2010 and 2019 using linked employer-employee data from Quadros de Pessoal. By leveraging job characteristics …
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Which immigrants are most innovative and entrepreneurial? Distinctions by entry visa
Hunt, Jennifer - 2010
Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
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The effects of high-skilled immigration policy on firms : evidence from visa lotteries
Doran, Kirk B.; Gelber, Alexander M.; Isen, Adam - 2022
workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have insignificant and at most modest effects on firm innovation. More general evidence …
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Human Capital, Skilled Immigrants, and Innovation
Ashraf, Rasha - 2018
&D investment proactively and contemporaneously. Firm-level innovation outcome, measured by patents and citations, declined for …
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Human Capital, Skilled Immigrants, and Innovation
Ashraf, Rasha - 2018
We design a performance-on-structure experiment, where performance is measured by innovation outcomes and structure is …, patents normalized by R&D intensity, patent citations, and citations per patent to measure innovation outcomes. A firm … market or to develop the human capital of existing employees and 2) how it adjusts capital investment in innovation to match …
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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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Expelling excellence : exchange visitor restrictions on high-skill migrants in the United States
Clemens, Michael A.; Neufeld, Jeremy; Nice, Amy M. - 2024
We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List. This List mandates that to become eligible for long-term status in the U.S., certain high-skill visitors must reside in their home countries for two years after participation...
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Immigration, naturalization, and the future of public education
Tanaka, Ryuichi; Farré, Lídia; Ortega, Francesc - 2014
This paper analyzes the effects of immigration on the education system of the receiving country from a political economy perspective. Specifically, we extend the school-choice model by Epple and Romano (1996b) and Coen-Pirani (2011) by incorporating a subsidy to private schools, a distinguishing...
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Immigration and the political economy of public education : recent perspectives
Ortega, Francesc; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2015
This paper reviews the recent literature on the effects of immigration on the public education of the host country, emphasizing the political economy implications. In particular, we are interested on what happens to enrollment in public schools and the quality of education in these schools. Our...
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