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Eastern partnership migrants in Germany : outcomes, potentials and challenges
Biavaschi, Costanza; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 7, pp. 1-20
migrants experience worse labor market outcomes than other migrant groups, but current and potential migrants hold …
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From immigrants to (non-)citizens : political economy of naturalisations in Latvia
Ivļevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha M. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
migrants and their descendants born on the territory of Latvia. The country of Latvia serves as an instructive laboratory for … the possibility that migrants came with an intention to acquire host country citizenship. Using data from a 2007 survey of …
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Using a point system for selecting immigrants : a point system can select economically desirable immigrants but it cannot prevente poor labor outcomes for immigrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2014
Restricting immigration to young and skilled immigrants using a point system, as in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, succeeds in selecting economically desirable immigrants and provides orderly management of population growth. But the point system cannot fix short-term skilled labor shortages...
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Legalizing undocumented immigrants : while legalization benefits most undocumented immigrants, deciding how to regularize them is challenging
Bansak, Cynthia - 2016
Addressing unauthorized immigration is controversial. Countries have adopted a variety of legalization programs, ranging from temporary visa programs to naturalization. Research in the US focused on past amnesty programs finds improved labor market outcomes for newly legalized immigrants....
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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...
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Migration, risk attitudes, and entrepreneurship : evidence from a representative immigrant survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-25
Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? We use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences to …) between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs, and correct for variation in the use of self-evaluation scales between migrants …
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Age at immigration matters for labor market integration-the Swedish example
Gustafsson, Björn; Mac Innes, Hanna; Österberg, Torun - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 7 (2017) 1, pp. 1-23
This paper analyses how age at immigration to Sweden and getting a first foothold in the labor market is related. We estimate hazard rate models using registry data on all persons who arrived in each of the years 1990, 1994, 1998, and 2002. The results show that the number of years taken to get...
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Skill composition of immigration flows and the measurement of education-occupation mismatch
Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 18, pp. 1-28
Recent papers have found that often immigrants are overqualified relative to native-born workers when comparing an individual’s education to the ‘average’ education in their occupation. We show that these results are sensitive to differences in the education distribution between immigrants...
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Does Italy represent an opportunity for temporary migrants from the eastern partnership countries?
Marchetti, Sabrina; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Venturini, … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 8, pp. 1-20
countries. In particular, it compares Ukrainian and Moldovan migrants, which are the most numerous nationalities. Even though … and care sectors, our research highlights the existence of two different migration profiles. Migration from Ukraine …
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Labour migration to the UK from Eastern partnership countries
Clark, Kenneth; Drinkwater, Stephen J. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 15, pp. 1-19
similar to that of EUA8 migrants but employment rates have been much lower. A large proportion of migrants to the UK from EaP … following changes to UK immigration policy and the onset of recession. The demographic profile of migrants from EaP countries is … migrants. Despite the potential for increased migration to fill skill gaps, immigration policies and attitudes to immigrants …
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