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Migrant networks and job search outcomes : evidence from displaced workers

Colussi, Tommaso - 2015

This paper investigates how immigrants' job search outcomes are affected by the labor market outcomes of workers from the same country of origin they are connected to. Connections are identified based on having worked for the same firm in the past. Using matched employer-employee micro data from...

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What institutions help immigrants integrate?

Huber, Peter - 2015

, only important in selecting migrants with high employment probabilities and migration policy variables remain unimportant …

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Unemployment of immigrants and natives over the business cycle : evidence from the Austrian labor market

Prean, Nora; Mayr, Karin - 2012

We analyze differences in unemployment between natives and immigrants over the business cycle. Using matched employer-employee data for Austria, we find that immigrants' unemployment rate and flows into and out of unemployment are significantly more sensitive to labor market shocks than those of...

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Do E-Verify mandates improve labor market outcomes of low-skilled native and legal immigrant workers?

Bohn, Sarah; Lofstrom, Magnus; Raphael, Steven - 2015

We examine the impact of state level legislation against the hiring of unauthorized immigrants on employment opportunities among competing low-skilled workers. Our focus is on the role of E-Verify mandates and specifically, we test for effects of the 2007 Legal Arizona Workers Act (LAWA) on...

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The fallacy of "job robbing" : a meta-analysis of estimates of the effect of immigration on employment

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2006

Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to political pressure to limit a further influx of foreign-born persons on the grounds that the absorption capacity of host countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened....

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How do native and migrant workers contribute to innovation? : a study on France, Germany and the UK

Fassio, Claudio; Montobbio, Fabio; Venturini, Alessandra - 2015

migrants we implement instrumental variable strategies using both two-stage least squares with external instruments and GMM … accordingly. Our results show that highly-educated migrants have a positive effect on innovation even if the effect is smaller …-tech sectors and among highly-educated migrants from other European countries. …

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Winners and losers among skilled migrants : the case of post-accession Polish migrants to the UK

Kaczmarczyk, Paweł; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2015

We test if migration leads to increased wages. We take the example of Polish migrants to the United Kingdom and focus … on the mobility of well educated Poles. We offer insights into absolute and relative change in wages of the migrants … are negligible or even insignificant for the highly skilled migrants from Poland to the UK. These results hold for both …

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Migrant networks and job search outcomes : evidence from displaced workers

Colussi, Tommaso - 2013 - First draft: December 2011, This version: June 2013

This paper investigates how the job search outcomes of displaced migrants are affected by the labor market outcomes of …

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Low occupational prestige and internal migration in Germany

Neubecker, Nina - 2013 - This version: June 2013

This paper assesses a recent prediction of the theoretical migration literature, according to which migration may be driven by a desire to avoid social humiliation rising from occupational stigma. To this end, we study the residential mobility of workers in occupations with relatively low...

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Source country characteristics and immigrants’ optimal migration duration decision

Kırdar, Murat G. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

This paper examines how immigrants’ optimal migration duration in the host country responds to the purchasing power parity (ppp) and relative wages between the host and source countries. A theoretical model of joint migration duration and saving decisions reveals that the optimal migration...

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