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Language Skills and Immigrant Adjustment : What Immigration Policy Can Do!
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2004
category, educational attainment and age at migration impact on immigrant?s language skills. The increased English Proficiency …This study provides an account of the dynamics of the dominant language adjustment process among immigrants in … Australia using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia, which comprises two cohorts of immigrants that arrived in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262160
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Top Ten Myths and Fallacies Regarding Immigration
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
This paper analyzes what the author views as the current top ten myths and fallacies regarding immigration and immigration policy in the United States.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331379
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Top ten myths and fallacies regarding immigration
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003936180
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European Labour Mobility: Challenges and Potentials
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
migration policies across Europe and (ii) that the European Union needs to become an active player on the international labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260825
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The Demand for High-skilled Workers and Immigration Policy
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kunze, Astrid - 2003
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261016
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The demand for high-skilled workers and immigration policy
Bauer, Thomas K.; Kunze, Astrid - 2004
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the demand for high-skilled workers using a new firm data set, the IZA International Employer Survey 2000. Our results suggest that while workers from EU-countries are mainly complements to domestic high-skilled workers, workers from non-EU countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261769
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European Labour Mobility : Challenges and Potentials
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
-country migration policies across Europe and (ii) that the European Union needs to become an active player on the international labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262152
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High Skilled Migration and the Exertion of Effort by the Local Population
Epstein, Gil S.; Kunze, Astrid; Ward, Melanie E. - 2002
The design of optimal immigration policy, particularly in the face of the spiralling demand for highly skilled workers, such as IT workers and engineers, is a topical issue in the policy debate as well as the economic literature. In this paper, we present empirical evidence from firm level data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262704
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Family reunification or point-based immigration system? The case of the United States and Mexico
López Real, Joel - 2011
the United Kingdom. it is a points-based immigration system which main objective is to attract high skilled immigrants … point system increases the average years of the immigrants by 3.5 years; (ii) the Mexican immigrants suffer a 10% reduction … in their effective hours of labor when they move to the United States; (iii) migration reduces inequality, more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305981
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336074