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The economics of Canadian immigration levels
Doyle, Matthew; Skuterud, Mikal; Worswick, Christopher - 2023 - First draft: June 2023
In the hope of addressing chronic labour shortages and sluggish economic growth, the Canadian government plans to increase immigration in the coming years to per capita levels not reached since the 1920s. We argue that economic immigration in the Canadian context should aim to boost GDP per...
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The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina : Social Mobility, Effects on Growth, and Selection Patterns
Droller, Federico; Fiszbein, Martín; Pérez, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
migrants. In this article, we first summarize recent findings characterizing migrants' long-term economic assimilation and … the selection patterns of Italian migrants to Argentina--the largest migratory group to this destination. Our analysis of … this initial stage of the migrants' history shows that Italians who moved to Argentina were positively selected on the …
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Essays on immigration, human capital and technical change
Beerli, Andreas - 2015
sector in China. We exploit the fact, that consumers reshuffle their consumption bundle to more luxurious goods as they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474006
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Migrants and economic performance in the EU15 : their allocations across countries, industries and job types and their (productivity) growth impacts at the sectoral and regional le...
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert; Liebensteiner, Mario - 2010
Studies regarding the migrants' impact upon performance variables and in particular upon productivity growth - which is … of the study the focus is on employment patterns of migrants regarding their shares in employment, the composition in … conducts a wide range of descriptive econometric' exercises analysing the relationship between migrants employment across …
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Child Growth and Refugee Status : Evidence from Syrian Migrants in Turkey
Demirci, Murat; Foster, Andrew D.; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2022
This study examines disparities in health and nutrition among native and Syrian-refugee children in Turkey. With a view toward understanding the need for targeted programs addressing child well-being among the refugee population, we analyze, in particular, the Turkey Demographic and Health...
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Educating in the East, emigrating to the West?
Kancs, D'Artis; Kielyte, Julda - 2010
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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Migration, innovation, and growth: an African story?
Mbaye, Linguère Mously; Tani, Massimiliano - 2019
This chapter brings new evidence on the relationship between short-term labour mobility, as proxied by tourism flows, and innovation in Africa. Using data from 34 African countries over the period 2011-2016 sourced from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey, we find that short-term mobility...
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Migration to the EU : social and macroeconomic effects on sending countries
Kancs, D'Artis; Ciaian, Pavel; Kielyte, Julda - 2016
In June 2016, the European Commission issued a new EU Blue Card proposal. This proposal is meant to make the EU more attractive for highly qualified workers from third countries. While strengthening the knowledge economy of the EU, the potential impacts of the new Blue Card proposal on...
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Impact of temporary migration on long-run economic development : the legacy of the sent-down youth program
Gørgens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Zhao, Guochang - 2024
Fifty years ago, China sent more than 16 million urban youths aged 16-19 to rural villages to work and they spent …
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Economic migration, social cohesion and development : towards an integrated approach
Taran, Patrick - 2009
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