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Which factors drive the skill-mix of migrants in the long-run?
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald - 2014
A pervasive, yet little acknowledged feature of international migration to developed countries is that newly arriving immigrants are increasingly highly skilled since the 1980s. This paper analyses the determinants of changes in the skill composition of immigrants using a framework suggested by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010437204
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Which factors drive the skill-mix of migrants in the long-run?
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald - 2014 - 1st December 2014
A pervasive, yet little acknowledged feature of international migration to developed countries is that newly arriving immigrants are increasingly highly skilled since the 1980s. This paper analyses the determinants of changes in the skill composition of immigrants using a framework suggested by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478715
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The labor market effects of immigration and emigration in OECD countries
Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar; Peri, Giovanni - 2011
of non-migrants. Using the consensus aggregate model of labor demand and supply we simulate the long-run employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009524983
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The Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Emigration in OECD Countries
Docquier, Frédéric - 2012
of non-migrants. Using the consensus aggregate model of labor demand and supply we simulate the long-run employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112765
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Labor Market Integration and Migration : Impacts on Skill Formation and the Wage Structure
Behrens, Kristian; Sato, Yasuhiro - 2006
We analyze the impacts of labor market integration and migration on skill formation, wage structures, and per capita GDP of host and source countries. To do so, we propose a model in which heterogeneous agents invest in the acquisition of skills, and in which final good production exhibits...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014057279
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Networks and selection in international migration to Spain
Neubecker, Nina; Smolka, Marcel; Steinbacher, Anne - 2013 - This version: May 2013
effect on the ratio of high-skilled to low-skilled migrants. Simplifying restrictions on substitutability across destinations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009763852
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Over-qualification of immigrants in the UK
Altorjai, Szilvia - 2013
This paper uses the first wave of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), to assess whether or not male migrant workers in the UK are more likely to be over-qualified than the UK born. It also explores whether immigrants from different countries and arriving under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009767284
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Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants
Corneo, Giacomo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2019
redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012010530
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A global profile of emigrants to OECD countries : younger and more skilled migrants from more diverse countries
Aiglepierre, Rohen d'; David, Anda; Levionnois, Charlotte; … - 2020
This paper presents new findings on the main characteristics of immigrants living in OECD countries by country of origin, drawing from the updated Database on Immigrants in OECD Countries (DIOC) 2015/16. It describes migrant populations by country of destination and country of origin in 2015/16,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012180254
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The effect of attitudes toward migrants on migrant skill composition
Avdiu, Besart - 2017
I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants in general can reduce the average skill … attitudes. I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011758389