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Creating and Connecting US and China Science : Chinese Diaspora and Returnee Researchers
Xie, Qingnan; Freeman, Richard B. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of China-born researchers who work in the US ("diaspora") and a larger group of China-born researchers who gained US-research experience and returned to do their research in China...
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Northern Triangle Undocumented Migration to the United States
Carare, Alina; Koh, Catherine; Yakhshilikov, Yorbol - 2023
conditions (real wages and unemployment rates, especially in the U.S.) play a major role in explaining undocumented migration …
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Do workers benefit from resource booms in their home state? : evidence from the fracking era
Winters, John V.; Cai, Zhengyu; Maguire, Karen; … - 2019
Fracking innovations revolutionized the United States oil and gas industry and facilitated a boom in energy production in states with oil and gas resources. This paper examines effects of oil and gas booms within a state on individual employment and earnings. To account for endogenous migration...
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The microeconomic determinants of emigration and return migration of the best and brightest : evidence from the Pacific
Gibson, John K. (contributor);  … - 2009
A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices....
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Recovering the counterfactual wage distribution with selective return migration
Biavaschi, Costanza - 2012
This paper explores the distribution of immigrant wages in the absence of return migration from the host country. In …
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International Job Search : Mexicans in and Out of the US
Rendon, Sílvio; Cuecuecha, Alfredo - 2021
It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by international wage differentials and preferences for origin. We use a model of job search, savings and migration to show that job turnover is a crucial determinant of the migration process....
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International job search : Mexicans in and out of the US
Rendón, Sílvio (contributor);  … - 2007
It is argued that migration from Mexico to the US and its corresponding return migration are determined by international wage differentials and preferences for origin. We use a model of job search, savings and migration to show that job turnover is a crucial determinant of the migration process....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646713
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Illegal migration, wages, and remittances : semi-parametric estimation of illegality effects
Schluter, Christian; Wahba, Jackline - 2009
, and test linearity. Using Mexican Migration project data, we find considerable and robust illegality effects on wages, the … normal error structure; wrongly imposing normality overestimates the illegality effect on wages by 50%, while wrongly … impacts on outcomes, specifically wages and remitting behavior. These outcomes are of particular interest given the extent of …
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Do informal referrals lead to better matches? : evidence from a firm's employee referral system
Brown, Meta; Setren, Elizabeth; Topa, Giorgio - 2014
Using a new firm-level dataset that includes explicit information on referrals by current employees, we investigate the hiring process and the relationships among referrals, match quality, wage trajectories and turnover for a single U.S. corporation, and test various predictions of theoretical...
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Migraine headache and labor market outcomes
Rees, Daniel I.; Sabia, Joseph J. - 2012
headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours … worked. We conclude that estimates of the cost of migraine headache to society should include its impact on wages …
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