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Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

This paper provides a comparative examination of how public universities in two countries, the United States and Israel, have evolved over the past few decades - and how differences between the two have culminated in a rate of academic brain drain from the latter to the former that is...

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Potential emigration of Latvian labour force after joining the EU and its impact on Latvian labour market

Hazans, Mihails - Baltic International Center for Economic Policy Studies … - 2003

during the transition period as well as in the years to come. Updated inter-regional migration rates show that Latvian … countervailing factors; outflow rates tended to be larger from high unemployment regions. Analysis of individual migration decisions … made in 1989-1999 and migration plans for 1999-2002 confirms significance of economic incentives for geographical mobility …

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Skills and Talent of Immigrants:A Comparison between the European Union and the United States

Peri, Giovanni - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2005

The nineties has been a period of increasing migratory flows from less developed countries to industrialized nations. It is instructive to compare the two largest economies in the world, the European Union and the United States, in terms of the magnitude, trends and composition of their...

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The Effect of Mexican Workforce Migration on the Mexican Maquiladora Labor Market

Atkinson, Scott E.; Ibarra, Marilyn - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2007)

A great deal has been written about the effects of foreign migration on the wages of U.S. workers. However, little is … known about the effects of Mexican interstate immigration (i.e., internal Mexican migration) and international return … migration of labor and foreign capital on wages and employment in the maquiladora industry in Mexico. We examine these issues by …

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Microeconometric analyses on economic consequences of selective migration

Ruhose, Jens - 2015

selection and the importance of migrant selection to labor force quality. Chapter 2 quantifies non-pecuniary migration costs … that are incurred due to selective migration along cultural traits. Chapter 3 discusses whether early performance …

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Optimal quota for sector-specific immigration

Mayr, Karin - 2008

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Endogenous assimilation and immigrant adjustment in longitudinal data

Beenstock, Michael; Chiswick, Barry R.; Paltiel, Ari - 2005

We create a longitudinal data set by matching immigrants in Israel's censuses for 1983 and 1995. These panel data reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants with shorter durations in 1983 should have experienced faster earnings growth between 1983 and...

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The Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany

Beyer, Robert - 2016

The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...

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Endogenous Assimilation and Immigrant Adjustment in Longitudinal Data

Beenstock, Michael; Chiswick, Barry R.; Paltiel, Ari - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We create a longitudinal data set by matching immigrants in Israel’s censuses for 1983 and 1995. These panel data reject the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis (IAH), which predicts that immigrants with shorter durations in 1983 should have experienced faster earnings growth between 1983 and...

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The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings

Miaari, Sami H.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the number of overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on...

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