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The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...
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European migration policies are characterised by a fundamental paradox: they are getting tighter and tighter just while …, based on a computable general equilibrium model, we evaluate whether migration to "rigid labour markets" a-la European … migration are, at a GDP gain of 0.2-0.3% at a migration of 1% of the labour force, but that natives in the receiving countries …
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. This paper explores the extent to which migration-related capital flows can explain the movements and magnitudes of current …
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migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social … natives. Trade and both migration solutions reduce inequality between the populations of the two countries by the same amount …. In addition, trade and migration are not equivalent if social capital is present: the highest welfare is obtained with …
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We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition evolves throughout the survey period. We construct and estimate sharp bounds on household size...
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This paper provides a political-economic model to study the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country's education system, which is characterized by sources of school funding, the average expenditure per pupil, and the type of parents who are more likely to send their children to...
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. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as … analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are …
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examine the labour market returns to inter-regional migration in Great Britain. Controlling for endogeneity, heterogeneity and … self-selection, we find substantial long-run wage premiums associated with migration for both males and females who move …
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Recent research has shown that participation in migrant labor markets has led to substantial increases in income for families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are less likely to work as migrants when a parent is...
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We review the different migration episodes in Spain since the beginning of the 20 th century, with special emphasis on … 1950-1973 periods are considered. Foreign immigration is also discussed. Special attention is devoted to internal migration … regions, while the reverse has happened with the better off ones. Intra-regional migration, which has not received much …
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