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The Effect of Attitudes Toward Migrants on Migrant Skill Composition

Avdiu, Besart - 2018

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants can reduce the average skill composition. The … hypothesis, I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …

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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2021

An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...

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Immigration quotas and anti-immigration attitudes : an evaluation of Swiss migration policy

Lin, Qingyang - 2022

Switzerland implemented an immigration quota system to manage the inflow of immigration between 1970 and 2002. This paper adopts a difference-in-difference strategy taking advantage of subnational variations in the implementation of the quota system to evaluate this migration policy. An...

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A macro-level analysis of adult-age language learning

Übelmesser, Silke; Weingarten, Severin - 2017

This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that language learning in the EU is strongly associated with...

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English skills and early labour market integration of humanitarian migrants

Cheng, Zhiming; Wang, Ben Zhe; Jiang, Zhou; Taksa, Lucy; … - 2020

in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is … speaking skills has been the least improved domain for humanitarian migrants' who have participated in an English training …

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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the skill mix of immigrants : evidence from Switzerland 1990-2010

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2017

An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in national labour markets. In recent decades, the introduction of information and communication technology [ICT] fuelled the demand for highly skilled workers at the expense of lower...

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The effect of attitudes toward migrants on migrant skill composition

Avdiu, Besart - 2017

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants in general can reduce the average skill … attitudes. I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …

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The impact of immigration on firms and workers : insights from the H-1B lottery

Mahajan, Parag; Morales, Nicolas; Shih, Kevin Y.; Chen, … - 2024

We study how random variation in the availability of highly educated, foreign-born workers impacts firm performance and recruitment behavior. We combine two rich data sources: 1) administrative employer-employee matched data from the US Census Bureau; and 2) firmlevel information on the first...

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An auctions approach to immigration policy

Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2020

Immigration reform is once again on Washington's policy agenda. Serious attention is being given to policies that would place more emphasis on merit than on family ties, which are favored by much of the current US immigration system. One way to determine merit is a point-based system. This paper...

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Chapter 10. Immigration and the Economy of Cities and Regions

Lewis, Ethan; Peri, Giovanni - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 625-685). 2015

labor markets. While immigration policies are typically national, the effects of international migrants are often more …

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