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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
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Which factors drive the skill-mix of migrants in the long-run?
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald - 2014 - 1st December 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/10010478715
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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wag...
Peri, Giovanni - 2014
Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers, but 30 years of empirical research provide little supporting evidence to this claim. Most studies for industrialized countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417057
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Born abroad and educated here : examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe
McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-30
This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating … from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher … likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred wage penalties which were exacerbated by additional penalties …
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The impact of immigration on the wage distribution in Switzerland
Favre, Sandro - 2011
Recent immigrants in Switzerland are overrepresented at the top of the wage distribution in high and at the bottom in low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage distribution in the former group and to an expansion in the...
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Earnings differentials between immigrants and natives : the role of occupational attainment
Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-18
This paper brings new evidence to the existing literature on earnings differentials and returns to human capital for immigrants and natives. It is the first paper analysing this topic using data drawn from the Italian Labour Force Survey, a large nationally representative dataset. We show that...
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Overeducation among immigrants in Sweden : incidence, wage effects and state dependence
Joona, Pernilla Andersson; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; … - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-23
The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. Using Swedish register data from 2001 - 2008, we extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by analyzing incidence, wage effects and state dependence in...
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Sorting within and across establishments : the immigrant-native wage differential in Germany
Bossler, Mario - 2014
Unter Verwendung des neuen Linked Personnel Panels (LPP) untersuche ich das Ausmaß der Beschäftigung von Migranten in … bezahlenden Betrieben arbeiten. In Bezug auf die Job-Hierarchie zeigt sich, dass Migranten in niedrigeren Positionen beschäftigt … bezahlenden Arbeitgebern einen großen Anteil des Lohnunterschieds zwischen Migranten und Deutschen erklärt. Politikmaßnahmen …
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Unequal pay or unequal employment? : what drives the self-selection of internal migrants in Germany?
Arntz, Melanie; Gregory, Terry; Lehmer, Florian - 2011 - Preliminary Version: March 3, 2011
, then, reflect both regional pay and employment differentials. In such a context, migrants tend to move to regions that best … its in-migrants. A higher employment inequality in Eastern as compared to Western Germany may, thus, be the missing link … to explain the fact that East-West migrants tend to be rather unskilled. …
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Computer skills, destination language proficiency and the earnings of natives and immigrants
Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor);  … - 2005
Using data from the 2001 Census of Population and Housing in Australia, this paper investigates the determinants, and consequences for earnings, of computer use by both the native born and the foreign born. Focussing on the foreign born, the multivariate analyses show that recent arrivals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003115142