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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment

Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019

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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Mass Emigration and Human Capital over a Century : Evidence from the Galician Diaspora

Fernández Sánchez, Martín - 2022

This paper examines the effects of emigration on human capital accumulation at origin throughout a century. I focus on … the mass emigration from Galicia (Spain) to Latin America (1900-1930), one of the largest emigration episodes at the time … sources and exploit variation in pioneering emigration and a pull factor for identification. I find that while emigration …

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Expelling excellence : exchange visitor restrictions on high-skill migrants in the United States

Clemens, Michael A.; Neufeld, Jeremy; Nice, Amy M. - 2024

We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List. This List mandates that to become eligible for long-term status in the U.S., certain high-skill visitors must reside in their home countries for two years after participation...

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Educational mismatch : are high-skilled immigrants really working at high-skilled jobs and the price they pay if they aren't?

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009

This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also...

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The effects of school quality in the origin on the payoff to schooling for immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...

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Human resources and innovation : total factor productivity and foreign human capital

Fassio, Claudio; Kalantaryan, Sona; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015

The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries - France, Germany and the United Kingdom - in the years 1994-2007. Unlike previous research, which...

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Female brain drain in Poland and Germany : new perspectives for research

Beaumont, Karolina; Kullas, Matthias; Dauner, Matthias; … - 2017

emigration of highly-skilled individuals in Poland and Germany, as well as the issues regarding brain drain from a gender …

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Does educational mismatch affect emigration behaviour?

Wanner, Philippe; Pecoraro, Marco; Tani, Massimiliano - 2021

the labour market and emigration decisions, carrying out the analysis for both Swiss native and previous immigrant workers … undereducation is positively associated with the probability of emigration and return to the country of origin. In contrast, the … reverse relationship is found between overeducation and emigration, especially among non-European immigrant workers. According …

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Exporting, Innovation and the Role of Immigrants

Sin, Isabelle - 2015

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Earnings and Occupational Attainment : Immigrants and the Native Born

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

This paper examines the determinants of occupational attainment and the impact of occupation on earnings. Results for both the native born and foreign born are presented, and these provide insights as to the earnings penalties associated with the less-than-perfect international transferability...

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