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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we find that migration within … Western Europe is small and rather balanced in terms of skill structures, while there appears to be a brain drain from Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264459
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272278
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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272326
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Do labour market conditions shape immigrant-native gaps in employment outcomes? : a comparison of 19 European countries
Markaki, Yvonni - 2014
This article draws from different theoretical and empirical literatures to analyse the role of socioeconomic and regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439678
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Population adjustment to asymmetric labour market shocks in India : a comparison to Europe and the United States at two different regional levels
Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022
changes as proxies for regional migration. Comparing the results with those for the United States and the European Union, the … the state/NUTS-1 and district level in both the United States and Europe. We find that Indian workers react to asymmetric … regional shocks by adjusting up to a third of a regional non-employment shock through migration within two years. This is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013274475
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Population adjustment to asymmetric labour market shocks in India : a comparison to Europe and the United States at two different regional levels
Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022
changes as proxies for regional migration. Comparing the results with those for the United States and the European Union, the … the state/NUTS-1 and district level in both the United States and Europe. We find that Indian workers react to asymmetric … regional shocks by adjusting up to a third of a regional non-employment shock through migration within two years. This is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013258869
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Population adjustment to asymmetric labour market shocks in India : a comparison to Europe and the United States at two different regional levels
Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022
changes as proxies for regional migration. Comparing the results with those for the United States and the European Union, the … the state/NUTS-1 and district level in both the United States and Europe. We find that Indian workers react to asymmetric … regional shocks by adjusting up to a third of a regional non-employment shock through migration within two years. This is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013262648
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Escaping from hunger before WW1 : nutrition and living standards in Western Europe and USA in the late nineteenth century
Gazeley, Ian; Holmes, Rose; Newell, Andrew; Reynolds, Kevin - 2017
significantly less. Finally we ask economic migration leads to taller children. To answer that we estimate the influence of children …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732355
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Ability Drain : Size, Impact, and Comparison with Brain Drain Under Alternative Immigration Policies
Schiff, Maurice - 2016
economically significant. While brain drain associated with migration also induces a brain gain, this cannot occur with ability … drain. This paper examines migration's impact on ability, education, and productive human capital or ‘skill' (which includes …). It finds that migration reduces (raises) source country residents' (migrants') average ability and has an ambiguous …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012994078
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Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States
Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001
Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily because the United States receives a much larger share of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262570