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Is Canadian Immigration too high? A Labour Market and Productivity Perspective
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper presents some of the economic considerations that should underlie Canadian immigration policy from the point of view of an economist. It then reviews the available data on the performance of recent immigrants against this backdrop. It also offers some observations on the changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008646840
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Language knowledge and earnings in Catalonia
Paolo, Antonio Di; Raymond, Josep Lluís - Xarxa de Referència en Economia Aplicada (XREAP) - 2010
This paper investigates the economic value of Catalan knowledge for national and foreign first- and second-generation immigrants in Catalonia. Specifically, drawing on data from the “Survey on Living Conditions and Habits of the Catalan Population (2006)”, we want to quantify the expected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671610
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Integration, Mobility, and Human Capital Formation
Haupt, Alexander; Uebelmesser, Silke - CESifo - 2010
In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human … capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and … the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular, integration depresses the incentives for some talented but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671737
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How the Transport System can Contribute to Better Economic and Environmental Outcomes in the Netherlands
Koźluk, Tomasz - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Congestion has become a burden for the Dutch economy. Commuters and businesses are suffering from the time lost in traffic and the unreliability of travel time. Expanding infrastructure can potentially solve such problems, albeit only in the long term and at a high cost. Thus short to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672222
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Immigration, offshoring and American jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - Nationale Bank van België/Banque national de Belqique (BNB) - 2010
How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008672361
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Positive but also negative effects of ethnic diversity in schools on educational performance? An empirical test using cross-national PISA data.
Dronkers, Jaap - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this inaugural lecture, I will estimate the effects on language skills of two characteristics of school populations: average/share and diversity, both on the ethnic and the sociocultural dimension. I will use the cross-national PISA 206 data, for both 15-year-old native pupils and pupils with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674258
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Why are the Relative Wages of Immigrants Declining? A Distributional Approach
Boudarbat, Brahim; Lemieux, Thomas - Vancouver School of Economics - 2010
In this paper, we show that the decline in the relative wages of immigrants in Canada is far from homogenous over different points of the wage distribution. The well-documented decline in the immigrant-Canadian born mean wage gap hides a much larger decline at the low end of the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008675216
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International Migratory Movements. The Physiology of a System
Livi-Bacci, Massimo - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2010) 3
In the 21st century the idea has gained ground that large-scale migration is not a major engine driving society but, rather, an anarchic component of social change, a misfitting tile in the mosaic, background noise breaking into the even hum of social life. And yet the ability to move and...
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The Effects of Immigration on Wages: An Application of the Structural Skill-Cell Approach
Gerfin, Michael; Kaiser, Boris - Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Bern - 2010
This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This period is of particular interest as it marks the time during which the bilateral agreement with the EU on the free cross-border movement of workers has been effective. Since...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008677248
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On-the-job search in Italian labour markets: an empirical analysis
Ponzo, Michela - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper analyses the determinants of on-the-job search activities of Italian workers. Using several waves of the Bank of Italy Survey on Household Income and Wealth (SHIW) we estimate with a Probit model how individual socio demographic characteristics and economic variables affect the...
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