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on the development of new technologies across U.S. cities with historical settlement patterns for migrants from countries …
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A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when countries and businesses intensify their competition for global talent. We investigate this argument...
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when countries and businesses intensify their competition for global talent. We investigate this argument...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830652
Results from international standardized tests show large cross-country differences in students' performances. Where do these gaps come from? This paper argues that differences in cultural environments and parental inputs may be of great importance. We show that the school performance of...
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This paper examines the potential impacts of East-West migration of talents on the innovative capital and hence the long-run growth prospects in Eastern sending countries. Complementing previous studies, we examine the impact of high skill migration not only on the formation of human capital,...
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The payoff to schooling among the foreign born in the US is only around one-half of the payoff for the native born. This paper examines whether this differential is related to the quality of the schooling immigrants acquired abroad. The paper uses the Over-education/ Required...
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member states of the EU. We find that the newly arrived migrants from these countries were likelier to be employed in lower … distributions of migrants and that of the UK-born. Many of the newly arrived without visa requirements may have downgraded …
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We measure selection of high-skilled migrants from Germany using predicted earnings. Migrants to less equal countries … are positively selected relative to non-migrants, while migrants to more equal countries are negatively selected … grades, and negative selection to more equal countries by university subject and gender. Migrants to the U.S. are highly …
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), and productive human capital or 'skill' (s) – which includes both a and h – for source country residents and migrants …' (migrants') average ability and has an ambiguous (positive) impact on their average education and skill, with a net skill drain …; vi) residents' (migrants') consumption is lower (higher) under either policy than under a closed economy; vii …
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