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Migration und Integration : Deutschland als Einwanderungsland – „... denn ihr seid selbst Fremde in Ägypten gewesen“

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

selbstbewusster und unaufgeregter Umgang mit den Themen Migration und Integration angeregt, zu dem Deutschland leider bislang nicht …Deutschland ist ein Einwanderungsland. Dies sollte heute niemand mehr ernsthaft bestreiten. Dennoch bedarf es einiger … Deutschland zweifelsohne steht, wird ein Plädoyer für eine umfassende Strategie gehalten. So ist neben einer besseren Aktivierung …

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The impact of immigration on firms and workers : insights from the H-1B lottery

Mahajan, Parag; Morales, Nicolas; Shih, Kevin Y.; Chen, … - 2024

We study how random variation in the availability of highly educated, foreign-born workers impacts firm performance and recruitment behavior. We combine two rich data sources: 1) administrative employer-employee matched data from the US Census Bureau; and 2) firmlevel information on the first...

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An auctions approach to immigration policy

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2020

Immigration reform is once again on Washington's policy agenda. Serious attention is being given to policies that would place more emphasis on merit than on family ties, which are favored by much of the current US immigration system. One way to determine merit is a point-based system. This paper...

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Using a point system for selecting immigrants : a point system can select economically desirable immigrants but it cannot prevente poor labor outcomes for immigrants

Tani, Massimiliano - 2014

Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, succeeds in selecting economically desirable immigrants and provides orderly management of population growth. But the point system cannot fix short-term skilled labor shortages...

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Immigration quotas and anti-immigration attitudes : an evaluation of Swiss migration policy

Lin, Qingyang - 2022

Switzerland implemented an immigration quota system to manage the inflow of immigration between 1970 and 2002. This paper adopts a difference-in-difference strategy taking advantage of subnational variations in the implementation of the quota system to evaluate this migration policy. An...

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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 desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labor market shortages often associated with commodity booms,...

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