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to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …
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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …
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This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in particular, on the contribution of migrant workers. We adopt...
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analyses the impact of the EQF on education, skills, migration and the economic growth by performing a conceptual analysis and … European Commission. Whereas education is the main driver of the upward skill mobility, migration drives the spatial skill …
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A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid "social humiliation". In a general … equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between … two identical economies. Migration increases the number of individuals who choose to perform degrading jobs and …
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This project focuses on comparing the qualification structure of migrants residing in Austria as well as their over- and underqualification rates to other EU countries. The skill structure of foreign born residing in Austria has improved slightly in the last years. Austria is, however,...
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migration phenomenon had been amplified and there is an increased young people migration from emergent countries to the innovat … contribute to the amplified migration among youths. We have also highlighted the motivational elements for returning to homeland …
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not. The paper shows that a marginal prospect of migration by engineers increases human capital accumulation of both types … consequence of the said prospect of migration, including the engineers who lose the migration "lottery", and even the individuals … who practice law. -- Heterogeneous human capital ; Differential externality effects ; Migration of educated workers …
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not. The paper shows that a marginal prospect of migration by engineers increases human capital accumulation of both types … consequence of the said prospect of migration, including the engineers who lose the migration "lottery," and even the individuals … who practice law. -- Heterogeneous human capital ; Differential externality effects ; Migration of educated workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009388245