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Selective immigration, occupational licensing, and labour market outcomes of foreign-trained migrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2018
This paper studies occupational licensing as a possible cause of poor labour market outcomes among economic migrants …. These results do not change over time, after employers observe migrants' productivity and migrants familiarise with the … address the under-use of migrants' human capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011803334
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Selective Immigration, Occupational Licensing, and Labour Market Outcomes of Foreign-Trained Migrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2018
This paper studies occupational licensing as a possible cause of poor labour market outcomes among economic migrants …. These results do not change over time, after employers observe migrants' productivity and migrants familiarise with the … address the under-use of migrants' human capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012925502
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Skilled migration policy and the labour market performance of immigrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2017
1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the … an ineffective policy tool to influence migrants' labour market outcomes. However, the economic relevance of making an … effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011785580
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414683
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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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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010442319
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Occupational licensing and skills mismatches among immigrants and natives in the United States
Tani, Massimiliano - In: The B.E. journal of economic analysis & policy 23 (2023) 3, pp. 673-700
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Self-confirming immigration policy
Giordani, Paolo E.; Ruta, Michele - 2012
We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non … (crowd in) skilled migrants and thus confirm initial beliefs. This self-fulfilling mechanism sustains the endogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009511754
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Self-confirming immigration policy
Giordani, Paolo E.; Ruta, Michele - 2012 - Manuscript date: March 2012
We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non … (crowd in) skilled migrants and thus confirm initial beliefs. This self-fulfilling mechanism sustains the endogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534894
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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