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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...
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Decomposing migrant self-selection : education, occupation, and unobserved abilities
Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2023
We analyze self-selection and sorting of emigrants from Finland, using full-population administrative data from Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education, occupation, and unobserved abilities. Our analysis...
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Estimating Immigrant Earnings Profiles When Migrations are Temporary
Dustmann, Christian - 2016
The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many – if not most – migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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Labor Market Integration and Migration : Impacts on Skill Formation and the Wage Structure
Behrens, Kristian; Sato, Yasuhiro - 2006
We analyze the impacts of labor market integration and migration on skill formation, wage structures, and per capita GDP of host and source countries. To do so, we propose a model in which heterogeneous agents invest in the acquisition of skills, and in which final good production exhibits...
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Self-confirming immigration policy
Giordani, Paolo E.; Ruta, Michele - 2012
We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non … (crowd in) skilled migrants and thus confirm initial beliefs. This self-fulfilling mechanism sustains the endogenous …
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Self-confirming immigration policy
Giordani, Paolo E.; Ruta, Michele - 2012 - Manuscript date: March 2012
We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non … (crowd in) skilled migrants and thus confirm initial beliefs. This self-fulfilling mechanism sustains the endogenous …
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Can selective immigration policies reduce migrants' quality?
Bertoli, Simone; Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - 2015 - Forthcoming in: Journal of Development Economics, 2015
Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential … migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on unobservables. We propose a model … that analyzes the effects of selective immigration policies on migrants' quality, measured by their wages at destination …
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Self-Confirming Immigration Policy
Giordani, Paolo E. - 2012
We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non … (crowd in) skilled migrants and thus confirm initial beliefs. This self-fulfilling mechanism sustains the endogenous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108468
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Can Selective Immigration Policies Reduce Migrants' Quality?
Bertoli, Simone - 2015
Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential … migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on unobservables. We propose a model … that analyzes the effects of selective immigration policies on migrants' quality, measured by their wages at destination …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013010799
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Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants
Corneo, Giacomo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2019
redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and …
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