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Marginal returns to citizenship and educational performance
Gathmann, Christina; Vonnahme, Christina; Busse, Anna; … - 2021
Citizenship is the most important right a host country can bestow on its immigrant population. Yet, little is known which citizenship policies work and who actually benefits from them. To answer these questions, we estimate the marginal returns to citizenship on children’s school performance...
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Best and brightest? : the impact of student visa restrictiveness on who attends college in the US
Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022
Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...
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The evaluation of immigration policies
Rinne, Ulf - 2012
identifies avenues for future research. -- migration ; program evaluation ; immigrant selection ; settlement policy …
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Herausforderungen der Flüchtlingskrise für Hochschulen
Dilger, Alexander - 2016
Flucht und Migration sind alte und weltweite Phänomene. Letztes Jahr hat jedoch die Zahl der Flüchtlinge nach Europa …Flight and migration are old and global phenomena. However, last year the number of refugees to Europe and especially …
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The Economic Benefits of Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Hinojosa-Ojeda, Raul - 2013
In this article, I use a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model to estimate the economic ramifications of three different scenarios: (1) comprehensive immigration reform that creates a pathway to legal status for unauthorized immigrants in the United States and establishes flexible limits on...
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The effects of the 2008 labour-migration reform in Sweden : an analysis of income
Irastorza, Nahikari; Emilsson, Henrik - 2020
In 2008, Sweden changed its labour-migration policy in order to facilitate more labour migration from countries outside … the EU. The unique design of the new law meant abandoning most state ambitions to shape labour migration. Under the new …. The effects of the policy change are substantial. Non-EU labour migration increased and its composition changed after the …
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Closing the Gates : Assessing Impacts of the Immigration Act of 1917
Ganguli, Ina; Withrow, Jennifer R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
'skill-based' immigration policy in an attempt to limit migration. We assess whether the Immigration Act had any measurable … into migration to the U.S. from Europe through Ellis Island, reducing migration from low literacy countries by 70 percent …
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The Intergenerational Effects of Permanent Legal Status
Cascio, Elizabeth U.; Cornell, Paul; Lewis, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
We estimate the effects of permanent legal status on the health of children born to immigrants in the United States using variation from the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). Our empirical approach compares trends in birth outcomes for foreign-born Mexican mothers across...
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Toward Improving Canada's Skilled Immigration Policy : An Evaluation Approach
Beach, Charles M.; Worswick, Christopher; Green, Alan G. - 2013
Canada’s approach to immigration faces major challenges, and requires reform if Canada is to meet the international competition for skilled immigrants, according to a new policy study. In the Policy Study, the authors assess the strengths and weaknesses of the current point system used to...
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Introduction
Chiswick, Barry R. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. xiii-xv). 2015
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