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The labour market effect of immigration : accounting for effective immigrant work experience in New Zealand
Tse, Michael M. H.; Maani, Sholeh A. - 2016
This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
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From engineer to taxi driver? : language proficiency and the occupational skills of immigrants
Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - 2018
We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We … less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the …
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Are immigrants particularly entrepreneurial? : policy lessons from a selective immigration system
Green, David A.; Liu, Huju; Ostrovsky, Yuri; Picot, Garnett - 2023
Firm ownership is a dening feature of immigrant adaptation: 41% of immigrants own a firm at some point in their first 10 years post-arrival. We use Canadian data linking immigrant arrival records with individual and firm tax data to examine the process of entering firm ownership for immigrants....
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Skill-based immigration, economic integration, and economic performance : benefiting from highly skilled immigrants requires a complementary mix of immigrant selection and economic...
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2014
highlights a need for complementary immigration and integration policies. …
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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard …
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New directions in immigration policy : Canada's evolving approach to the selection of economic immigrants
Ferrer, Ana M.; Picot, Garnett; Riddell, William Craig - 2014
Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a … market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire to shift immigration away from the three largest … cities to other regions of the country. These goals reflect the implementation of new immigration programs in the 2000s. The …
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Immigration Policy and the Skills of Irish Immigrants : Evidence and Implications
Minns, Chris - 2005
The rise of immigration into Ireland has been accompanied by a debate on the potential objectives of immigration policy …. This paper beings with a survey of international and historical evidence on the economics of immigration policy. To place … Irish immigration in the international context, a recent OECD data set is used to compare the education of Irish immigrants …
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Chapter 3. The Adjustment of Immigrants in the Labor Market
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 105-182). 2015
This chapter explores immigrant labor market adjustment by first describing methodological and theoretical considerations central to the analysis of earnings growth and occupational mobility. When no restrictions are placed on entry earnings or earnings growth, an inverse relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025480
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Immigration Policy and the Skills of Irish Immigrants : Evidence And Implications
Minns, Chris - 2005
The rise of immigration into Ireland has been accompanied by a debate on the potential objectives of immigration policy …. This paper beings with a survey of international and historical evidence on the economics of immigration policy. To place … Irish immigration in the international context, a recent OECD data set is used to compare the education of Irish immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014064357
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Labor market competition and the assimilation of immigrants
Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021
In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...
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