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Immigration and Occupation in Europe
D’Amuri, Francesco - 2011
In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on natives' job specialization in Western Europe. We test whether the …
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Skills in African labor markets and implications for migration to Europe
Backhaus, Andreas - 2020
This paper assesses the potential for skilled labor migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. It utilizes …, workers in Ghana and Kenya are substantially less skilled than workers in Europe. The paper further considers a number of … be a remedy for skill shortages in Europe unless migrants are positively selected on their skills. In that case, however …
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US immigration policy at a crossroads
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt - 2013
Two issues have taken center stage in the recent debates about U.S. immigration policy: one, illegal immigration and more generally the entrance of poorly educated individuals into the U.S. economy and two, whether the U.S. should continue its family-based admissions system or move towards a...
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The labor market impact of undocumented immigrants : job creation vs. job competition
Albert, Christoph - 2017
This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search frictions and non-random hiring that is consistent with novel empirical evidence presented. In this framework, undocumented immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their...
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The Labor Market Impact of Undocumented Immigrants : Job Creation vs. Job Competition
Albert, Christoph - 2017
This paper studies the labor market impact of documented and undocumented immigration in a model with search frictions and non-random hiring. Since they accept lower wages, firms obtain a higher match surplus from hiring immigrants rather than natives. Therefore, immigration results in the...
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An empirical study on the migration among young skilled and creative people
Suciu, Marta-Christina; Florea, Cristina Andreea - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 19 (2017) 46, pp. 727-741
In the context of a knowledge and innovative-based society and economy, smart and creative cities are attracting an increasing number of young people, most of them being gifted, very talented students and high-skilled workforce, with multiple competences . These young people are pro-active and...
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How self-sorting affects migrants’ labour market outcomes
Pareliussen, Jon Kristian - 2017
Assuming that immigrants select destinations according to absolute returns to their observable and unobservable human capital, I present a human capital model of migration accounting for taxes, transfers and limited portability of skills. The model predicts both segmented sorting of migrants to...
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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...
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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana D. - 2008
In the 1980s the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some blame recent immigration shifts for the misfortunes of unskilled workers in the U.S. OLS estimates using...
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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana D.; Yuksel, Mutlu - 2021
Starting in the 1980s, the composition of immigrants to the U.S. shifted towards less-skilled workers partly due to the influx of Latin American immigrants in the past few decades. Around this time, real wages and employment of younger and less-educated U.S. workers fell. Some believe that...
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