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Occupational Mobility of Immigrants in a Low Skilled Economy: The Spanish Case

Simón, Hipólito; Ramos, Raul; Sanromá, Esteban - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We analyze the occupational mobility of immigrants between their origin countries and Spain and its determinants. We use microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes to compute an internationally harmonized occupational status index (ISEI) that permits to quantify and properly analyze...

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Labor Mobility for the Poor: Is it Really Possible?

Luthria, Manjula - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 45, pp. 1-6

Despite mounting evidence that supports the pro-poor benefits of migration, it has not been easy to unlock doors into developed country labor markets. This is largely because both labor sending and receiving countries are unsure that such programs can be designed or executed in a manner that...

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Marché du travail en revue - Décembre 2014

Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014

Le fait de ne parler ni anglais ni français constitue souvent un obstacle important pour un emploi et un revenu rémunérateurs au Canada et, selon une étude intitulée Â« Effets de la proximité linguistique sur l’assimilation professionnelle des immigrants hommes Â» (Rapport de...

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Labour Market Matters - December 2014

Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014

immigration are less likely (such as Asia) may be tied to the lack of improvements in immigrant wage outcomes despite the …

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Technological Change and Declining Immigrant Outcomes, Implications for Income Inequality in Canada

Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014

The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of immigrants in the 1990s have not led to a large improvement in earnings as one might expect if growing computerization was leading to a rising return to non-routine cognitive...

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Over-education among A8 migrants in the UK

Campbell, Stuart - Department of Quantitative Social Science, Institute of … - 2013

I present new evidence on the incidence and wage associations of over-education among migrants to the UK from the â€˜A8â€™ EU accession countries of Central and Eastern Europe from 2004-2011. Using the Labour Force Survey, I employ a novel strategy to maximise the number of migrants...

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INTEGRATION POLICY TOWARDS IMMIGRANTS: CURRENT EXPERIENCE

Bureiko, Nadiia - In: CES Working Papers 4(1) (2012) March, pp. 12-23

In the contemporary world the intensity of the immigration movements is constantly increasing. Countries which … experience great immigrant flows are facing numerous problems which should be solved. The article studies the current immigration …

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Doctors without borders: The returns to an occupational license for Soviet immigrant physicians in Israel

Kugler, Adriana; Sauer, Robert - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2002

Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...

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Complements or substitutes? : task specialization by gender and nativity in Spain

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Rica, Sara de la - 2009

Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for … the task specialization and occupational distribution of natives of the same gender. -- Immigration ; gender ; task … immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and …

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Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland

Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - 2009

We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … assess whether the average wages of natives across skill cells is affected by the share of immigrants across cells. When the … suggest that care should be exercised when applying this method as inaccurate impressions of the impact of immigration on …

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