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Effects of Business Cycles on Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003

This study addresses the effects of macroeconomic conditions on the labour market outcomes of immigrants. It simultaneously identifies the separate effects of macro conditions at the time of entry to the labour market and at the time of the survey, while allowing for cohort effects. Also, for...

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Are Immigrants Positively or Negatively Selected? The Role of Immigrant Selection Criteria and Self-Selection

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003

This paper specifies and estimates a structural model of international migration using micro data. This provides a direct test of human capital theory that suggests that individuals respond to the earnings differentials across countries while making their migration decisions. The paper specifies...

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Effects of Business Cycles on Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003

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Explaining the Deteriorating Entry Earnings of Canada’s Immigrant

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Skuterud, Mikal - EconWPA - 2004

The study explores causes of the deterioration in entry earnings of Canadian immigrant cohorts by estimating an empirical specification that nests a number of competing explanations found in the Canadian literature. To do this, we use the pooled sample of Canadian-born and immigrant men employed...

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Public pensions and immigration policy when voters are differently skilled

Krieger, Tim - EconWPA - 2004

Although immigration of workers generates a positive externality on members of domestic pension systems, many countries … effects from immigration as well. …

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Migration, Labor Market Flexibility, and Wage Determination in China: A Review

Zhao, Zhong - EconWPA - 2005

This paper reviews economic studies on rural-urban migration issues in China. The paper focuses on four issues: the household registration system in China, the proﬁle of the migrants, explanations for rural-to-urban migration, and the interaction between migration and labor market evolution,...

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Staying Competitive in the High-tech Global Economy: Another Look at the H-1B Visa

Cynamon, Barry - EconWPA - 2001

This paper addresses a specific suggestion for immigration reform—that we must seek skilled immigrants—by examining … support for a move to unlimited H-1B visa issuance. Great care is taken to include up to date media coverage as immigration … immigration and then reviews the current landscape of U.S. immigration and the H-1B visa market, showing the strong moral and …

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The Earnings of US immigrants

Jasso, Guillermina; Rosensweig, Mark; Smith, James P. - EconWPA - 2003

Using a new survey of legal immigrants to the United States, the authors develop and test a model of the determinants of skill selectivity of those migrants

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40 million Aussies? The Immigration Debate Revisited

Corden, Max - EconWPA - 2004

If Australia's population were to reach 40 million, it could only result from either a drastic reversal of the decline in the fertility rate or a very large increase in the rate of net migration. This lecture explores this interesting question.

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Shared Legacies, Disparate Outcomes: Why American South Border Cities Turned the Tables on Crime and Their Mexican Sisters Did Not

Albuquerque, Pedro H. - EconWPA - 2005

The article evaluates crime trends in south border American and Mexican sister cities using panel data analysis. The region offers a unique assessment opportunity since cities are characterized by shared cultural and historical legacies, institutional heterogeneity, and disparate crime outcomes....

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