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different training effects of skilled immigration across traded and non-traded sectors. Hiring of UK born workers in high wage …While skilled immigration ceteris paribus provides an immediate boost to GDP per capita by adding to the human capital … stock of the receiving economy, might it also reduce the number of 'good jobs', i.e. those with training, available to …
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Prior empirical research shows that acculturation in the host country might be positively related to immigrants? labor market outcomes. However, whether acculturation helps highly educated immigrants in the labor market is in question, as they have completed a significant fraction of human...
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This paper asks whether immigration to Britain has had any impact on average wages. There seems to be a broad consensus … immigration in Britain, the immigrant-native ratio has a significant, small, negative impact on average wages. Closer examination … anecdote, but does not seem to have been recorded previously in the empirical literature. -- immigration ; occupation ; wages …
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access educational and vocational training in the developed world aside from university education. Returning migrants with …This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their … skills acquired by migrants while abroad is related to the activity chosen upon return and the duration of migration. The …
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access educational and vocational training in the developed world aside from university education. Returning migrants with …This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their … skills acquired by migrants while abroad is related to the activity chosen upon return and the duration of migration. The …
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This paper asks whether immigration to Britain has had any impact on average wages. There seems to be a broad consensus … the existing literature on immigration to include occupations as well. We find that the immigrant to native ratio has a … the impact that supply shocks, such as immigration, have on average wages and overall inflation. Our results also reveal …
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This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 …) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …
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access educational and vocational training in the developed world aside from university education. Returning migrants with …This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their … skills acquired by migrants while abroad is related to the activity chosen upon return and the duration of migration. The …
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