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The Effect of the H-1B Quota on the Employment and Selection of Foreign-Born Labor
Mayda, Anna Maria - 2018
The H-1B program allows skilled foreign-born individuals to work in the United States. The annual quota on new H-1B issuances fell from 195,000 to 65,000 for employees of most firms in fiscal year 2004. This cap did not apply to new employees of colleges, universities, and non-profit research...
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The effect of the H-1B quota on the employment and selection of foreign-born labor
Mayda, Anna Maria; Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2018
The H-1B program allows skilled foreign-born individuals to work in the United States. The annual quota on new H-1B issuances fell from 195,000 to 65,000 for employees of most firms in fiscal year 2004. This cap did not apply to new employees of colleges, universities, and non-profit research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798253
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The share of foreigners in one's occupation and attitudes towards foreigners
Pecoraro, Marco; Ruedin, Didier - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between attitudes towards foreigners and the share of foreigners at the … occupational level. Using a question on equal opportunities for foreigners from the Swiss House-hold Panel, ordered probit … regressions with standard controls show that: (a) there is a negative association between the share of foreigners in one …
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Internationally mobile students and their postgraduation migratory behaviour : an analysis of determinants of student mobility and retention rates in the EU
Weisser, Reinhard A. - 2016
This paper is part of the joint project between the Directorate General for Migration and Home Affairs of the European Commission and the OECD’s Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs on “Review of Labour Migration Policy in Europe”. This document has been produced with the...
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Fachkräftesicherung durch Zuwanderung an die Hochschulen : Potenziale für ein Studium von mehr Personen aus dem Ausland
Geis-Thöne, Wido - 2024 - Stand: Mai 2024
Vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels ist Deutschland in zunehmendem Maß auf die Zuwanderung von Fachkräften angewiesen, um Wachstum und Wohlstand zu sichern. Gleichzeitig ist das Potenzial an Personen, die über Qualifikationen verfügen, die einem beruflichen oder hochschulischen...
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Entrepreneurial ventures and wage differentials between Germans and immigrants
Constant, Amelie (contributor);  … - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that affect the sorting of individuals into self-employment and then we investigate whether self-employment has a differential effect on the wages of individual workers and can lead...
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Remote Work, Foreign Residents, and the Future of Global Cities
Guerreiro, João; Rebelo, Sérgio; Teles, Pedro - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
As remote work opportunities expand, more people are seeking residence in foreign destinations. The resulting surge in foreign residents generates capital gains for property owners but negatively impacts renters and creates potentially important production, congestion, and amenities...
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Goodbye China : what do fewer foreigners mean for multinationals and the Chinese economy?
Bickenbach, Frank; Liu, Wan-hsin - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 57 (2022) 5, pp. 306-312
The number of foreigners living in China is very low in international comparison and has further declined recently … this background, this article discusses the economic challenges that the reduction in the number of foreigners is causing …
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Quotas and quality : the effect of H-1B visa restrictions on the pool of prospective undergraduate students from abroad
Kato, Takao; Sparber, Chad - 2010
In deliberating whether to pursue an undergraduate education in the US, a foreign student takes into consideration the expected probability of securing US employment after graduation. The H-1B visa provides a primary means of legal employment for college-educated foreign-nationals. In October...
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Who leaves and when? : selective outmigration of immigrants from Germany
Kuhlenkasper, Torben; Steinhardt, Max Friedrich - 2012
This paper provides new evidence on the outmigration behaviour of foreign-born immigrants. Our analysis is based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the period 1984 to 2010. A unique feature of our paper is the use of new data from panel-drop out studies, which allows us to...
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