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Occupational Choice of High Skilled Immigrants in the United States

Chiswick, Barry R.; Taengnoi, Sarinda - 2021

English prior to immigration is found to have little influence on selecting occupations in the U.S. The paper also shows that …

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Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives : A Factor Proportions Approach

Ortega, Javier - 2011

This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 … immigrant share across education/experience cells and over time to identify the impact of immigration. In the Borjas (2003 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the …

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Skilled Immigrants' Contribution to Productive Efficiency

Nahm, Daehoon - 2014

) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We …

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Skilled Immigration, Task Allocation and the Innovation of Firms

Mayda, Anna Maria; Orefice, Gianluca; Santoni, Gianluca - 2022

This paper analyses the impact of skilled migrants on the innovation (patenting) activity of French firms between 1995 and 2010, and investigates the underlying mechanism. We present districtlevel and firm-level estimates and address endogeneity using a modified version of the shift-share...

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Immigration Policies and Their Impact : The Case of New Zealand and Australia

Winkelmann, Rainer - 2021

The paper provides an analysis of the recent immigration history of New Zealand and Australia. It starts with a … contribution of external migration to population growth. Next, similarities and differences in the current immigration policies are … description of the quantitative dimension of immigration: how many immigrants entered the two countries, and what was the …

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Produce or Speculate? Asset Bubbles, Occupational Choice and Efficiency

Cahuc, Pierre - 2009

We study the macroeconomic effects of rational asset bubbles in an overlapping-generations economy where asset trading requires specialized intermediaries and where agents freely choose between working in the production or in the financial sector. Frictions in the market for deposits create...

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Prevalence of Long Hours and Skilled Women's Occupational Choices

Cortés, Patricia - 2016

Gender differences in occupations account for a sizable portion of the persistent gender pay gap. This paper examines the relationship between the demand for long hours of work (as proxied for by the share of men working 50 or more hours per week) and skilled women's occupational choice....

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Motherhood, Migration, and Self-Employment of College Graduates

Cai, Zhengyu - 2019

Women face unique challenges in starting and running their own businesses and may have differing motives to men for pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with families value the flexibility that self-employment can offer, allowing them to balance their family...

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Wage Effects of High-Skilled Migration : International Evidence

Grossmann, Volker - 2012

This paper argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level such that the wage rate of skilled workers may rise in host countries and decline in source countries. We exploit a recent data set on international bilateral migration flows...

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Labour Market Outcomes and Skill Acquisition in the Host Country : North African Migrants Returning Home from the European Union

Mahuteau, Stephane - 2011

This paper studies the educational investment decisions of returning migrants while abroad in the context of their decisions about the choice of activity upon returning and the duration of migration. The theoretical model builds on Dustmann (1999), Dustmann and Kirchkamp (1992) and Mesnard...

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