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be driven by higher-skilled workers. The results for training are less clear, but suggest that higher-skilled immigration … may have a positive impact on the training of native workers. We discuss the implications for post-Brexit immigration …
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I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration from the EU that resulted, and then the recent more dramatic exodus of foreign-born residents during the covid-19 pandemic. I describe the new post-Brexit system, and review...
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I review trends in migration to the UK since the Brexit referendum, examining first the sharp fall in net migration from the EU that resulted, and then the recent more dramatic exodus of foreign-born residents during the covid-19 pandemic. I describe the new post-Brexit system, and review...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520561
This paper empirically analyses the effect of naturalisation on on-the-job training (OJT) participation among first …
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Job training is one of the most important aspects of skill formation and human capital accumulation. In this study we …-borns experience different opportunities in two well-defined measures of firm-sponsored training: on-the-job training and classroom … training. While we find no differences in on-the-job training between different groups, our results suggest that visible …
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How many immigrants with less than university education, for a given immigration quota, maximise economic output? The answer is zero in the canonical model of the labour market, where the marginal product of a university-educated immigrant is always higher. We build an alternative model in which...
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Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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This paper investigates whether a high level of new business formation in a region stimulates employment in that region. The study looks at the lag structure of these effects, using a data set covering a fairly large time span (1982-2002). The indirect supply-side effects of new firm births,...
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Do government provided training programs benefit the participants and the society? We address this question in the … training. Although theoretically training may have several outcomes, most evaluations have focused on only one outcome of … training: the expected wage. However, training might have no direct effect on wage, but, nevertheless, affect employment …
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Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white … observed patterns of the fast decrease in unemployment as immigrants first find blue-collar jobs and attend training, followed … by a gradual movement to white-collar occupations. The estimated rates of return to local training, local experience and …
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