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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the skill mix of immigrants : evidence from Switzerland 1990-2010

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2017

An important goal of immigration policy is facilitating the entry and supply of workers whose skills are scarce in national labour markets. In recent decades, the introduction of information and communication technology [ICT] fuelled the demand for highly skilled workers at the expense of lower...

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Chapter 25. Immigrants in Israel

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1363-1420). 2015

enter the country also expanded in the last decade. While immigration policy legislation towards Jewish migrants was formed … soon after its independence, Israel still lacks a coherent immigration policy towards labor migrants and asylum seekers. …

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Opening the labor market to qualified immigrants in absence of linguistic barriers

Gatti, Nicolò; Mazzonna, Fabrizio; Parchet, Raphaël; … - 2022

This paper investigates the impact of opening the labor market to qualified immigrants who hold fully equivalent diplomas with respect to natives and speak the same mother tongue. Leveraging the 2002 opening of the Swiss labor market to qualified workers from the European Union, we show that the...

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Self-selection patterns among return migrants : Mexico 1990-2010

Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Lara, Jaime - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18

This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990–2010. To calculate … the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have … that the wages of return migrants are larger than those that the migrants would have obtained had they not migrated. …

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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13

Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...

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Improving well-being in New Zealand through migration

Carey, David - 2019

New Zealand’s immigration system aims to enhance well-being by promoting economic development, reuniting families and meeting humanitarian objectives. Immigration is high and residence admissions are focused on the high skilled to enhance economic outcomes. Empirical evidence suggests that...

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The Impact of Immigration on the Employment and Wages of Native Workers

Palivos, Theodore; Chassamboulli, Andri - 2022

We analyze the impact of the immigration influx that took place during the years 2000-2007 in Greece on labor market outcomes. We employ a search and matching framework that allows for skill heterogeneity and differential unemployment income (search cost) between immigrants and natives. Within...

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The effect of linguistic proximity on the occupational assimilation of immigrant men in Canada

Adserà, Alícia; Ferrer, Ana M. - 2015

This paper contributes to the analysis of the integration of immigrants in the Canadian labour market by focusing in two relatively new dimensions. We combine the large samples of the restricted version of the Canadian Census (1991-2006) with both a new measure of linguistic proximity of the...

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Occupational Language Requirements and the Value of English in the U.S. Labor Market

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2007

This paper is concerned with the English language requirements (both level and importance) of occupations in the United States, as measured by the O*NET database. These scores are linked to microdata on employed adult (aged 25 to 64) males, both native born and foreign born, as reported in the...

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Matching Language Proficiency to Occupation : The Effect on Immigrants' Earnings

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2007

This paper analyzes the effect on earnings of the matching of English language skills to occupational requirements. It uses data from the Occupational Information Network (O*NET) database and a quot;Realized Matchesquot; procedure to quantify expected levels of English skills in each of over 500...

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