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Examining the relationships between labour market mismatches, earnings and job satisfaction among immigrant graduates in Europe
McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - 2014
This paper uses graduate survey data and econometric methods to estimate the incidence and wage/job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among immigrants graduating from EU 15 based universities in 2005. Female immigrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a...
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How do native and migrant workers contribute to innovation? : a study on France, Germany and the UK
Fassio, Claudio; Montobbio, Fabio; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015
migrants we implement instrumental variable strategies using both two-stage least squares with external instruments and GMM … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …-tech sectors and among highly-educated migrants from other European countries. …
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How does immigration affect natives' task-specialisation? : evidence from the United Kingdom
Bisello, Martina - 2014
In this paper we empirically test the predictions of Peri and Sparber (2009) model of comparative advantage in tasks performance to evaluate whether in the United Kingdom immigration affected the way natives specialise in the task they perform on the job. Using Labour Force Survey and UK Skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010252154
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Employer Demand for 'Skilled' Migrant Workers : Regulating Admission Under the United Kingdom's Tier 2 (General) Visa
Zou, Mimi - 2017
relations between different migrants, local workers, and employers in the host state. This chapter examines the regulatory …, including the number of migrants admitted, the occupations, sectors, and geographical areas where they are recruited, as well as … migrants' skills and attributes. Employers may desire a laissez faire model of employer-led admission where they can freely …
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English Skills and Early Labour Market Integration of Humanitarian Migrants
Cheng, Zhiming - 2020
in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is … speaking skills has been the least improved domain for humanitarian migrants' who have participated in an English training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822460
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English skills and early labour market integration of humanitarian migrants
Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben Zhe; Jiang, Zhou; Taksa, Lucy; … - 2020
in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is … speaking skills has been the least improved domain for humanitarian migrants' who have participated in an English training …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012293794
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Examining the determinants of managers' hiring attitudes towards immigrant workers : evidence from an employer survey
Fang, Tony; Zhang, Tingting; Hartley, John - 2023
with employer hiring attitudes towards international migrants. Our results indicate that employers who hired international …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014287242
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How Different are Immigrants? A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
Schnepf, Sylke V. - 2021
This paper examines differences in educational achievement between immigrants and natives in ten countries with a high population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and the USA. The first step of the analysis shows...
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The impact of migration on productivity and native-born workers' training
Campo, Francesco; Forte, Giuseppe; Portes, Jonathan - 2018
We investigate the relationship between migration and productivity in the UK, using an instrumental variable along the lines suggested by Bianchi, Buonanno and Pinotti (2012). Our results suggest that immigration has a positive and significant impact (in both the statistical sense and more...
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A gain or a loss? : the consequences of Brexit in the opinions of Polish migrants
Fel, Stanisław; Wódka, Marek; Kozak, Jarosław - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 25 (2022) 4, pp. 29-44
The aim of the article is to present the opinions of Polish migrants in Britain on the gains or losses that Brexit may … families. These opinions were determined based on the analysis of the results of a survey carried out among these migrants and … Isles regularly since the 1970s. The article analyses the beliefs held on this issue by economic migrants, who are faced …
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