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Skilled immigrants' contribution to productive efficiency

Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014

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...

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The productivity impact of business mobility : international evidence

Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of … productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business … results suggest that mobility through business visits is an effective mechanism to improve productivity. The estimated effect …

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The productivity impact of business visits across industries

Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2020

Visits as a productivity enhancing channel of technology transfer. Our analysis is based on a unique database on business … evidence that BVs contribute to fostering labour productivity in a significant way. While this is consistent with what found by … returns, being more crucial in those sectors characterized by less mobility and by lower productivity performances. …

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Business visits, knowledge diffusion and productivity

Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016

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Labour mobility through business visits as a way to foster productivity

Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2017

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Selective immigration policies, occupational licensing, and the quality of migrants' education-occupation match

Tani, Massimiliano - 2018

. These results do not change over time, after employers observe migrants' productivity and migrants familiarise with the …

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Skilled migration policy and the labour market performance of immigrants

Tani, Massimiliano - 2017

This paper studies whether migration policy, besides managing a country's population size, is a suitable tool to influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of...

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Selective immigration, occupational licensing, and labour market outcomes of foreign-trained migrants

Tani, Massimiliano - 2018

. These results do not change over time, after employers observe migrants' productivity and migrants familiarise with the …

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Teaching, gender and labour market incentives

Carroll, David; Parasnis, Jaai; Tani, Massimiliano - 2018

The concentration of women in the teaching profession is widely noted and generally attributed to gender differences in preferences and social roles. Further, gender segregation exists within this profession - women make up almost all of the primary and pre-primary teaching cohorts, while men...

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Does It pay to graduate from an "elite" university in Australia?

Carroll, David; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - 2018

In Australia, the so-called Group of Eight (Go8) universities have lower student-to-staff ratios, better qualified staff, superior research outcomes, and generally better placement in university rankings compared to non-Go8 universities. They are also typically the most competitive universities...

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