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The majority of modelling studies on consequences of internal migration focus almost exclusively on the labour market … pattern of migrants' subjective well-being (SWB) around the time of the migration event. Our findings make an original … contribution by revealing for the first time that, on average, migration is preceded by a period when individuals experience a …
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, migration, ethnicity, country of birth and place of residence in Scotland. We do this using longitudinal census data linking …
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-native earnings gap across the entire earnings distribution, across continents of nationality and across cohorts of arrival in the UK … individual characteristics on earnings. This helped us to prevent selectivity biases such as cohort bias and survivor bias, which … are disproportionately non-white, suffer an earnings penalty in the labour market, whereas higher paid immigrants, whom …
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This paper provides a review of the research on the ‘economics of language' as applied to international migration. Its … acquiring destination language proficiency, with an emphasis on labor market outcomes, and in particular earnings. Factors that … are considered include age, education, gender, family structure, costs of migration, linguistic distance, duration in the …
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market consequences of that proficiency, as expressed in their earnings. Immigrants tend to take language differences across …, Efficiency in acquiring destination language proficiency, including education, age at migration and linguistic distance, among … other variables, and Economic incentives, including the effects of higher earnings and a longer expected duration of …
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Over the last 50 years, London has successfully adapted to technological change and globalization, making it the major driver of the UK economy. But its strengths have also made the city particularly vulnerable to the health impacts of COVID-19, and potentially also to wider negative economic...
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exogenous determinant for English proficiency of migrants of different ages, and we consider cohort data on migration among 29 … migration models. We find that immigrants who are proficient in English move to countries where fewer individuals speak English …
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I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration …. I describe the new post-Brexit system, and review studies which attempt to estimate both the impact on future migration …
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I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration …. I describe the new post-Brexit system, and review studies which attempt to estimate both the impact on future migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520561
We investigate the relationship between migration and productivity in the UK, using an instrumental variable along the … impact (in both the statistical sense and more broadly) on productivity, as measured at a geographical level; this appears to …
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