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International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills

Patt, Alexander - 2017

-migrants. Conditional on occupational skills, education and earnings no longer predict migration decisions. Differential labor …-to-skills measures in predicting migration. Results are persistent over time and hold within narrowly defined regional, sectoral, and …

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Winners and Losers Among Skilled Migrants : The Case of Post-Accession Polish Migrants to the UK

Kaczmarczyk, Pawel - 2015

We test if migration leads to increased wages. We take the example of Polish migrants to the United Kingdom and focus …, utilizing the data from the UK and Polish labor force surveys. We find that while overall the returns to migration are low, they …

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Moving Up or Down? Immigration and the Selection of Natives Across Occupations and Locations

Ortega, Javier - 2016

Exploiting a large French panel for 1976-2007, we examine the impact of low-educated immigration on the labour market outcomes of blue-collar natives initially in jobs where immigrants became overrepresented in the last decades. Immigrant inflows generate substantial reallocations of natives...

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Immigrant Over- and Under-Education : The Role of Home Country Labour Market Experience

Piracha, Matloob - 2010

The cause of immigrant education mismatch in the host country labour market might not necessarily be discrimination or imperfect transferability of human capital, as argued in previous studies. Immigrants who have gained professional experience in the home country in jobs below their education...

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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees in Romania : Evidence and Long-Run Implications

Ambrosini, William - 2012

-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. Once we account for migration … returnees relative to non-migrants. As these findings are consistent with a model of rational choice in the migration decisions …, we simulate a rational-agent model of education, migration and return. Our results suggest that for a source country like …

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An Explanation for the Lower Payoff to Schooling for Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market

Chiswick, Barry R. - 2009

This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are offered with findings for the US. The paper uses the Overeducation/Required...

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Selective Immigration, Occupational Licensing, and Labour Market Outcomes of Foreign-Trained Migrants

Tani, Massimiliano - 2018

This paper studies occupational licensing as a possible cause of poor labour market outcomes among economic migrants. The analysis uses panel data from Australia, which implements one of the world's largest selective immigration programmes, and applies both cross-sectional and panel estimators....

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Explaining the Male Native-Immigrant Employment Gap in Sweden : The Role of Human Capital and Migrant Categories

Luik, Marc-André - 2016

Despite having one of the most celebrated labor market integration policies, the native-immigrant employment gap in Sweden is one of the largest among the OECD countries. In this study, we use unique Swedish register data to try to explain the employment gap between male immigrants and natives....

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The Impact of Immigrant Peers on Native Students' Academic Achievement in Countries Where Parents of Immigrants are Relatively Skilled

Seah, Kelvin - 2016

This study examines how exposure to immigrant students affects the academic achievement of native students in the three largest immigrant-receiving countries – United States, Australia, and Canada. Using a large cross-country dataset, variation in the share of immigrant children between...

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English Skills and Early Labour Market Integration of Humanitarian Migrants

Cheng, Zhiming - 2020

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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