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Skill downgrading among refugees and economic immigrants in Germany : evidence from the Syrian refugee crisis
Nikolov, Plamen; Salarpour Goodarzi, Leila; Titus, David - 2022
Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
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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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Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth : Implications for Adult Outcomes
Altonji, Joseph G. - 2016
are related to labor market success, including race, gender, parental background, education, test scores, and variables …
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Skill Downgrading Among Refugees and Economic Immigrants in Germany : Evidence from the Syrian Refugee Crisis
Nikolov, Plamen; Salarpour Goodarzi, Leila - 2022
Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014080618
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Does low skilled immigration cause human capital polarization? : evidence from Italian provinces
Brunello, Giorgio; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2017
While there is a vast literature considering the labour market effects of immigration, less has been done to … investigate how immigration affects the educational choices of young natives. Using Italian provincial data and an instrumental … variables strategy, we show that the recent increase in the immigration of low skilled labour has produced human capital …
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A Pacific Skills Visa : improving opportunities for skilled migration throughout the Pacific region
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A.; Dempster, Helen - 2021
The demand for skills exceeds supply, both within the Pacific Islands and the high-income countries of the Pacific Rim. Enhancing skilled migration therefore has the potential to generate large economic gains. The Global Skill Partnership is a migration model that can support such mutually...
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Over-qualification of immigrants in the UK
Altorjai, Szilvia - 2013
immigrants from different countries and arriving under different immigration policy regimes vary in their probability of over …-qualification. The results suggest that both country of origin (sending factor) and immigration policy (selecting factor) matter and that …
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Should the US continue its family-friendly immigration policy?
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2014
accompanied by new restrictions on family-based immigration. Moreover, it is misleading to think that only employment …
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The effects of high-skilled immigration policy on firms : evidence from visa lotteries
Doran, Kirk B.; Gelber, Alexander M.; Isen, Adam - 2022
We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one additional H-1B visa crowds out about 1.5 other workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have...
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Moving up or down? : immigration and the selection of natives across occupations and locations
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - 2016
Exploiting a large French panel for 1976-2007, we examine the impact of low-educated immigration on the labour market … immigration. Low-educated immigration generally lowers the wages of blue-collar workers, but its impact is heterogeneous across …
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