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Whilst migration has become a structural feature of most European countries, the integration of foreigners in the …
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with high-skilled immigrants with relatively few (1-5) or many (11+) years since migration. The relative responsiveness of … migration), whereas other groups of immigrants became particularly fluid during the Great Recession, such as those from new …
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migration movements. A rising number of people is 'on the move', in search of a better fortune elsewhere. It is noteworthy that … nowadays many migration movements do not show anymore stable patterns, but reflect a high degree of dynamics, for instance, in … the form of return migration, circular and temporary migration, or chain migration. There is also a great heterogeneity in …
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This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the previously overlooked fact that foreign STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment rates than their non-STEM counterparts, with an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage...
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This paper examines the determinants of long-term international migration to the UK; we explore the extent to which … migration is driven by macroeconomic variables (GDP per capita, unemployment rate) as well as law and policy (the existence of … macroeconomic variables - UK GDP growth and GDP at origin - are significant drivers of migration flows; evidence for the impact of …
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Australia, the study shows that pre-migration education, work experience, previous migration episodes, as well as English …
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thus creating illegal migration. -- illegal immigration ; foreign worker ; minimum wages …
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We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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We use the panel data from the Building a New Life in Australia survey to examine the relationships between proficiency in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is certainly associated with a higher propensity for...
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The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past large inflows of lowskilled migrants have substantially increased the supply of child-care services. In this...
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