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-scoring international SAT takers do not pursue US college education. …
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selection and the importance of migrant selection to labor force quality. Chapter 2 quantifies non-pecuniary migration costs … that are incurred due to selective migration along cultural traits. Chapter 3 discusses whether early performance …
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In deliberating whether to pursue an undergraduate education in the US, a foreign student takes into consideration the …. -- Skilled immigration ; H-1B visa ; college education ; SAT scores …
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This paper estimates the multi-dimensional human capital endowments of immigrants by characterizing their occupational decisions. This approach allows for estimation of physical skill and cognitive ability endowments, which are difficult to measure directly. Estimation implies that immigrants as...
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Die Integration von Migranten im Aufnahmeland ist stark mit deren Erfolg am Arbeitsmarkt verbunden. Für letzteres … kulturellen Werten auf die Arbeitsmarktpartizipation von Migranten bisher jedoch kaum untersucht. Daher analysiert dieses Papier … den Zusammenhang zwischen kollektivistischen Werten im Herkunftsland und der Arbeitsmarktsituation von Migranten der …
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Many destination countries consider implementing points-based migration systems as a way to improve migrants' quality … rather than across countries. This suggests that heavily relying on education to select immigrants might fail to markedly …
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outdated because it fails to reflect modern economic research on the complex effects of skilled migration on overseas …
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We document the transmission of social distancing practices from the United States to Mexico along migrant networks during the early 2020 Covid-19 pandemic. Using data on pre-existing migrant connections between Mexican and U.S. locations and mobile-phone tracking data revealing social...
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Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using … Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin …
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firm-to-firm global supply chain information with a US establishment database and historical migration data, we find that …
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