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immigrants arriving from non-western countries. The aim of this paper is to explore the link between citizenship and employment … probabilities for immigrants in both countries, controlling for a range of demographic, human capital, and municipal characteristics … on employment probabilities in both Canada and Sweden. The size of the co-ethnic population has a positive impact for …
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Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...
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Our study examines the empirical link between the naturalization of immigrants and their subsequent employment status … particularly true for groups of immigrants who have a low probability of employment in the host country. … French censuses. The dataset we use is especially valuable for studying social integration of immigrants since it allows us …
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continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this …-savings" effect they may leave unaffected, or even increase, total native employment of less skilled workers. Our model also predicts … positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has …
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This paper forms part of a larger Australian Research Council funded project designed to encrease our understanding of labour mobility and its determinants and , in particular, to trace the importance, strength and the effects of technological change on sectoral, occupational and inter-regional...
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The selection of immigrants by skill and education is a central issue in the analysis of immigration. Since highly … educated immigrants tend to be more successful in host country labour markets and less of a fiscal cost it is important to know … migrants from around 80 source countries who were observed as immigrants in each of 29 OECD countries in 2000/1. We develop a …
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The economic literature has largely overlooked the importance of repeat and circular migration. The paper studies this behaviour by analyzing the number of exits and the total number of years away from the host country using count data models and panel data from Germany. More than 60% of...
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While global migration is increasing, internal EU migration flows have remained low. This paper contributes to a better understanding of the determinants and scale of European migration. It surveys previous historical experiences and empirical findings including the recent Eastern enlargements....
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, the largest European immigration country, are indeed repeat migrants. The findings indicate that immigrants from European …
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Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
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