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How self-sorting affects migrants’ labour market outcomes
Pareliussen, Jon Kristian - 2017
Assuming that immigrants select destinations according to absolute returns to their observable and unobservable human capital, I present a human capital model of migration accounting for taxes, transfers and limited portability of skills. The model predicts both segmented sorting of migrants to...
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Skills and labour market performance in Sweden
Bussi, Margherita; Pareliussen, Jon K. - 2015
literacy and the likelihood of participating in adult education is also explored. Lower employment prospects for immigrants are …
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Making the most of immigration in Canada
Carey, David - 2018
Canada’s immigration policy aims to promote economic development by selecting immigrants with high levels of human capital, to reunite families and to respond to foreign crises and offer protection to endangered people. Economic-class immigrants, who are selected for their skills, are by far...
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Overcoming skills shortages in Canada
Carey, David - 2014
Skills shortages have developed in certain fields and regions in recent years. Earnings premiums for people in some professions, notably health, engineering and skilled trades have increased. And vacancy rates have risen for skilled trades, with the increase being particularly large in Alberta...
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Fostering strong and relevant skills in Iceland
Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; Brogi, Laura - 2019
Strong and relevant skills are vital for helping Iceland to adjust to rapidly changing technology and competition in the world economy and safeguard high prosperity and well-being. Many students, especially those with an immigration background, lack solid core skills and competences that weakens...
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Improving well-being in New Zealand through migration
Carey, David - 2019
not adversely affected the wage or employment outcomes of the average NZ-born worker. However, temporary migration has had … urbanised areas. Immigrants have high well-being outcomes on average but suffer an initial shortfall in employment and wages …
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A new profile of migrants in the aftermath of the recent economic crisis
Arslan, Cansin; Dumont, Jean-Christophe; Kone, Zovanga; … - 2015
Growing international migration and diverse characteristics of migrant populations make internationally comparable high-quality data on migrants essential. Regular update of these data is crucial to capture the changes in size and composition of migrant populations. This document presents the...
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Reducing skills imbalances to foster productivity growth of Malaysia
Espinoza, Ricardo; Vandeweyer, Marieke - 2019
between education institutions and employment, iii) providing training opportunities during working life, and iv) making …
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Fear the walking dead : zombie firms, spillovers and exit barriers
Gouveia, Ana Fontoura; Osterhold, Christian - 2018
Productivity growth is slowing down among OECD countries, coupled with increased misallocation of resources. A recent strand of literature focuses on the role of non-viable firms (“zombie firms”) to explain these developments. Using a rich firm-level dataset for one of the OECD countries...
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Employment of ICT specialists in the EU (2000-2012)
Sabadash, Anna - 2014
onwards it adopts the thematic view for ICT occupations proposed by the ILO (2012). It confirms that employment of ICT … employment over the same period. Though ICT employment evolved cyclically it never turned negative. This rapid growth in ICT … employment confirms the increasing importance of ICT technologies in the global economy. …
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