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Migration, allocation and re-allocation of immigrants in the regional labour markets
Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2015
whether migration contribute to change the labor market status of immigrants (like in job, in education, unemployed or outside … immigrated for the first time. To measure the specific effects of migration on change of labor market status, we have compared …. Domestic migration has to a certain extent been beneficial for immigrants to obtain employment or to carry out an education …
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Towards an objective-driven system of smart labor migration management
Holzmann, Robert; Pouget, Yann - 2010
migration system. It argues that migrant workers may importantly contribute to economic growth and development both in sending … sustainable migration management system that takes into account the interests of the various stakeholders involved; (ii) a clear … identification and articulation of objectives and interests in migration by the key stakeholders based on a common conceptual …
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Economic integration of intermarried labour migrants, refugees and family migrants to Sweden : premium or selection?
Bevelander, Pieter; Irastorza, Nahikari - 2014
We use Swedish register data to compare the employment and income of immigrants who intermarry natives versus those of immigrants who intramarry other immigrants in Sweden. We conduct the same analyses on three subsamples: labour migrants, refugees and family migrants. We find that intermarried...
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Cross-border migration and travel : a virtuous relationship : international migration boosts travel and vice versa, bringing economic benefits but challenging public policy
Poot, Jacques - 2015
migration. New communication technologies, such as social media and video chat, only partially substitute for face …
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Unemployed, now what? : the effect of immigration on unemployment transitions of native-born workers in the United States
Rios-Avila, Fernando; Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo - 2016
Although one would expect the unemployed to be the population most likely affected by immigration, most of the studies have concentrated on investigating the effects immigration has on the employed population. Little is known of the effects of immigration on labor market transitions out of...
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Labor market outcomes of highly educated immigrants : does your name matter?
Xu, Dafeng - 2015 - (Very preliminary version)
Prior empirical research shows that acculturation in the host country might be positively related to immigrants? labor market outcomes. However, whether acculturation helps highly educated immigrants in the labor market is in question, as they have completed a significant fraction of human...
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Impact of ethnic civil conflict on migration of skilled labor
Christensen, Julie; Onul, Darius; Prakarsh Singh - 2016
may lead to higher skilled emigration. A regression model that accounts for the time-varying definition of migration and …
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Country of origin and immigrant earnings,1960-2000 : a human capital investment perspective
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Liu, Xingfei; Regets, Marc - 2014
Using microdata from the 1960-2000 decennial censuses, this paper explores how large initial differences in immigrant earnings by country of origin change with duration in the United States. One analysis reveals that country of origin adds less to the explanation of earnings, among working-age...
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Do migrants take the jobs of native workers? : migrants rarely take native workers' jobs, and they boost employment effects in the long term
Constant, Amelie - 2014
Neither public opinion nor evidence-based research supports the claim of some politicians and the media that immigrants take the jobs of native-born workers. Public opinion polls in six migrant-destination countries after the 2008-2009 recession show that most people believe that immigrants fill...
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