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Immigrant Skill Distributions and Location Choices

Besenhard, Petra - 2021

In the wake of rising immigration and concerns about immigrant skill levels, this paper investigates the skill …

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The effects of immigration on wages : an application of the structural skill-cell approach

Gerfin, Michael; Kaiser, Boris - 2010

This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This … immigration inflows, we follow the "structural skill-cell approach" as for example employed by Borjas (2003) and Ottaviano and … on domestic wages using the actual immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008. For the long run, the simulations produce some …

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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions : consequences for the German labor market

Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

underline the importance of more open immigration policies targeting high-skilled immigrants. The current policy not only cannot …

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Skill formation, immigration and European integration : the politics of the UK growth model

Coulter, Steve - In: New political economy 23 (2018) 2, pp. 208-222

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Spatial sorting : conference paper

Eeckhout, Jan; Pinheiro, Roberto; Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2013

We investigate the role of complementarities in production and skill mobility across cities. We propose a general equilibrium model of location choice by heterogeneously skilled workers, and consider different degrees of complementarities between the skills of workers. The nature of the...

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New York City Immigrants : The 1990s Wave

Rosen, Rae D.; Wieler, Susan; Pereira, Joseph - 2005

Fueled by a steady influx of immigrants, New York City's population turnover in the 1990s was almost double the average for the nation's 100 largest cities. A close look at the city's new foreign-born residents suggests that they are a very diverse group, showing marked differences in education...

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Immigrants' educational mismatch and the penalty of over-education

Kalfa, Eleni; Piracha, Matloob - 2013

This paper analyses immigrants' education-occupation mismatch as well as its impact on their wages in Spain. Using cross-sectional data from the National Immigrant Survey of Spain 2007, we estimate a probit model taking into account the possible problem of selection bias. We show that the...

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Immigrant selection systems and occupational outcomes of international medical graduates in Canada and the United States

McDonald, James Ted; Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - 2011

We analyze the process of immigrant selection and occupational outcomes of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in the US and Canada. We extend the IMG relicensing model of Kugler and Sauer (2005) to incorporate two different approaches to immigrant selection: employer nomination systems and...

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Do high-skill immigrants raise productivity? : evidence from Israeli manufacturing firms, 1990-1999

Paserman, Marco Daniele - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-31

study the effect high skill immigration on productivity. Using a unique data set on manufacturing firms, I investigate …

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Does immigration crowd natives into or out of higher education?

Jackson, Osborne - 2015

This paper investigates the impact of immigration on the college enrollment of U.S. natives. Many studies have focused …

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