Search Results - subject:"Immigration"

U.S. immigration reform and the dynamics of Mexican migration

Altangerel, Khulan; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017

The 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was directed at tackling the problem of growing unauthorized … reducing unauthorized migration to the US. Although primarily aiming at unauthorized immigration, the IRCA had substantial …

European migrations : dynamics, drivers, and the role of policies

Haas, Hein de; Vezzoli, Simona; Szczepanikova, Alice; … - Europäische Kommission / Gemeinsame Forschungsstelle - 2018

U.S. immigration reform and the dynamics of Mexican migration

Altangerel, Khulan; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017

U.S. immigration reform and the dynamics of Mexican migration

Altangerel, Khulan; Ours, Jan C. van - 2017

From labor to cash flow? : the abolition of immigration restrictions and the performance of Swiss firms

Ruffner, Jan; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2016

) countries. This immigration reform granted all EU workers free access to the Swiss labor market. Our firm-level panel data …

Family-friendly and human-capital-based immigration policy : Shifting the focus from immigrants’ initial earnings to their propensity to invest in human capital

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2017

Immigrants who start with low earnings, such as family-based immigrants, experience higher earnings growth than immigrants who are recruited for specific jobs (employment-based immigrants). This occurs because family-based immigrants with lower initial earnings invest in human capital at higher...

Immigration and innovation : evidence from Canadian cities

Blit, Joel; Skuterud, Mikal; Zhang, Jue - 2017

model of skilled immigration policy. Our estimates suggest unambiguously smaller beneficial impacts of increasing the …

Less welfare or fewer foreigners?$immigrant inflows and public opinion towards redistribution and migration policy

Murard, Elie - 2017

immigration policy over the last decade. Unlike previous studies, I analyze the evolution over time of these two types of … essentially on how immigration is perceived to affect wages and net welfare benefits. Specifically, I find that, when immigrants …

Immigration policy and remittance behaviour

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Nguembu, Guy Tchuente - 2017

This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …

The rise and fall of U.S. low-skilled immigration

Hanson, Gordon H.; Liu, Chen; McIntosh, Craig - 2017