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Winkelmann, Rainer - 1999

A history of the New Zealand immigration experience and policy is reviewed in this paper. Data from the 1981 and 1996 …

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Epstein, Gil S.; Weiss, Avi - 2001

This paper presents a first attempt at understanding some of the many issues involved in the granting of an amnesty to illegal immigrants. We consider government behavior with respect to allocations on limiting infiltration (border control) and apprehending infiltrators (internal control) and...

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Immigration Policy and the Skills of Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001

Census data for 1990/91 indicate that Australian and Canadian immigrants have higher levels of English fluency, education, and income (relative to natives) than do U.S. immigrants. This skill deficit for U.S. immigrants arises primarily because the United States receives a much larger share of...

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Human Capital and Earnings of Female Immigrants to Australia, Canada, and the United States

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Trejo, Stephen J. - 2002

than women to gain admission on the basis of immigration criteria related to labor market considerations rather than family … female immigration flows. Therefore, our findings of similar patterns for men and women and of the key role played by … national origin both suggest that factors other than immigration policy per se are important contributors to the observed skill …

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Naturalisation and socioeconomic integration: the case of the Netherlands

Bevelander, Pieter; Veenman, Justus - 2006

This paper investigates Dutch immigrants' naturalisation decision and how naturalisation affects their employment chances and wages in the Netherlands. The population under consideration consists mainly of refugees from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Somalia and former Yugoslavia, and a minority of...

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The economic diversity of immigration across the United States

Friedberg, Rachel M.; Jaeger, David A. - 2009

about the extent to which the character of immigration varies as well. There is much broader geographic variation in the … immigration, the presence of immigrant children in schools, and the effect of immigration on the age, sex, language, and …

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Immigrant selection and short-term labour market outcomes by visa category

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2010

This paper studies the efficacy of immigrant selection based on skill requirements in the Canadian context. The point system results in a much higher skill level than would otherwise be achieved by family preferences. This positive selection is achieved by directly selecting higher skilled...

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Citizenship, co-ethnic populations and employment probabilities of immigrants in Sweden

Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - 2009

the same period, immigration patterns by country of birth changed substantially, with an increasing number of immigrants …

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The Integration of Migrants in the German Labor Market: Evidence over 50 Years

Berbée, Paul; Stuhler, Jan - 2023

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The Fiscal Effects of Immigration to the UK

Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso - 2013

In this paper, we investigate the fiscal impact of immigration on the UK economy, with a focus on the period since 1995 …

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