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Improving well-being in New Zealand through migration
Carey, David - 2019
New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that...
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Tax-induced emigration: who flees high taxes? : evidence from the Netherlands
Giarola, José Victor C.; Marie, Olivier; Cörvers, Frank; … - 2023
We study the impact of a policy change in the Netherlands that reduced preferential tax treatment duration for high …-skilled migrants arriving from specific countries in certain years. Utilizing comprehensive tax and population data, we document …
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The importance of heterogeneity when examining immigrant education-occupation mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand
Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - 2010
occupation in which they work. We find that migrants living in New Zealand for less than 5 years are on average overeducated …, while earlier migrants are on average undereducated. However, once accounting for heterogeneity, we find that both … overeducated and undereducated migrants become, with increasing years of residence in New Zealand, more similar to comparable …
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Perception of workplace discrimination among immigrants and native born New Zealanders
Daldy, Bridget M.; Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2013
-reported workplace discrimination is found amongst migrants from Asia and the Pacific Islands. Discrimination is more likely to be …
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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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Wage gaps between native and migrant graduates of higher education institutions in the Netherlands
Gheasi, Masood; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 2015
In the Netherlands the share of immigrants in the total population has steadily increased in recent decades. The … present paper takes a look at wage differences between natives and migrants who are equally educated. This reduces potential … skills biases in our analysis. We apply a Mincer equation in estimating the wage differences between natives and migrants. In …
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Social networks, ethnicity, and entrepreneurship
Kerr, William R.; Mandorff, Martin - 2016
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, the concentration of Korean self-employment in dry cleaners is 34 times greater than other immigrant groups, and...
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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wag...
Peri, Giovanni - 2014
Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers, but 30 years of empirical research provide little supporting evidence to this claim. Most studies for industrialized countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and...
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Immigration and school choices in the midst of the Great Recession
Farré, Lídia; Ortega, Francesc; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2015
This paper empirically analyzes the effects of immigration on the schooling decisions of natives. We employ household-level data for Spain for years 2000-2012, a period characterized by a large immigration wave and a severe recession. Our estimates reveal that Spanish households responded to...
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Over-qualification of immigrants in the UK
Altorjai, Szilvia - 2013
This paper uses the first wave of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), to assess whether or not male migrant workers in the UK are more likely to be over-qualified than the UK born. It also explores whether immigrants from different countries and arriving under...
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