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This paper presents occupation-specific data on south-north migration around the year 2000 using employment data for developing sending and OECD receiving countries from ILO and OECD. These data reveal that the incidence of south-north migration was highest among professionals, one of the two...
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This paper looks at the impact of networks on international migration flows to OECD countries. In particular, we look at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both dimensions, we are able to analyze the respective impact of...
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In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the … literature. In all cases we find that immigration had a positive effect on the wage of less educated natives. It also increased …
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suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard conditions. The context is …
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This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host … 1980-2005 period for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while … in any country, immigration does not cause unemployment. On the other hand, our results show that, in four countries …
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Using a panel of OECD countries, we show that immigration systematically alters the composition of public spending in … the destination country. To mitigate the bias from endogenous sorting of immigrants, we use an IV estimation strategy. The … resources from social welfare to national defense and public order. Our findings imply that:(1) immigration affects policy …
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period of 22 years, and apply the High Density Fixed Effect (HDFE) Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) estimation …
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We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991– 2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post … channels of transmission of immigration shocks – the employment and wage effects, the fiscal effect, and the market size effect …-country heterogeneity in the economic benefits from immigration …
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We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991–2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post … channels of transmission of immigration shocks – the employment and wage effects, the fiscal effect, and the market size effect …-country heterogeneity in the economic benefits from immigration …
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net migration of the native-born and foreign-born by skill level. Specifically, after introducing...
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