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The Labour Market Effect of Immigration : Accounting for Effective Immigrant Work Experience in New Zealand

Tse, Michael - 2016

This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...

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Winners and Losers Among Skilled Migrants : The Case of Post-Accession Polish Migrants to the UK

Kaczmarczyk, Pawel - 2015

We test if migration leads to increased wages. We take the example of Polish migrants to the United Kingdom and focus …, utilizing the data from the UK and Polish labor force surveys. We find that while overall the returns to migration are low, they …

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U.S. Skilled Immigrant Employment and Public Firms

Ashraf, Rasha - 2018

Characteristics of skilled immigrant workers – age, educational attainment, and occupational skills – changed after the U.S. immigration policy shock of 2004 when the maximum number of new skilled immigrant visas was reduced to 90,000. We observe a higher (lower) probability of hiring...

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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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Migration in Asia : What skills for the future?

Gagnon, Catherine - 2021

affecting the future demand for skills. For regional economies built on labour migration, the impending changes will affect … disrupt the development benefits of migration. This paper investigates how the future of the employment landscape will affect … migration within the Abu Dhabi Dialogue, a regional consultative process for migration in Asia. It investigates the impending …

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Immigration and natives' task specialization : evidence from Korea

Kim, Hyejin; Lee, Jongkwan - 2022

While imperfect substitutability between native and immigrant workers is one of the important mechanisms in estimating the wage effects of immigration, its empirical literature is concentrated on the context of only a few countries. Using occupation task-intensity data from a unique Korean...

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Computer Skills, Destination Language Proficiency and the Earnings of Natives and Immigrants

Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2021

suggests a high degree of favorable selection in migration. Study of the links between earnings, computer use and other human …

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The Labour Market Characteristics and Labour Market Impacts of Immigrants in Ireland

Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Duffy, David - 2021

The purpose of this paper is two-fold. We firstly produce a labour market profile of non-Irish immigrants who arrived in Ireland in the ten years to 2003. We then go on to use the labour market profile in estimating the impact of immigration (non-Irish) on the Irish labour market. Immigrants are...

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English skills and early labour market integration of humanitarian migrants

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

We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...

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International emigrant selection on occupational skills

Patt, Alexander; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2017

-migrants. Conditional on occupational skills, education and earnings no longer predict migration decisions. Differential labor …-to-skills measures in predicting migration. Results are persistent over time and hold within narrowly defined regional, sectoral, and …

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