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Are Immigrants Favorably Self-Selected? An Economic Analysis

Chiswick, Barry R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

criteria can ration visas on one or more characteristics that enhance labor market earnings (e.g., education), or on …

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A "Glass-Ceiling" Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the … human capital, for immigrants and natives, in explaining inter-occupational and intra-occupational earnings progression … mainly driven by intra-occupational earnings progression. Moreover, and contrary to what is observed for natives, we detect …

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Self-Selection in Migration and Returns to Unobservable Skills

Dostie, Benoit; Léger, Pierre Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

migrate. We build a model in which individuals sort, in part, on potential earnings - where earnings across different …-specific characteristics (particularly earnings differentials) on physician location decisions. We find, among other things, that high …

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Kick It Like Özil? Decomposing the Native-Migrant Education Gap

Krause, Annabelle; Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We investigate second generation migrants and native children at several stages in the German education system to analyze the determinants of the persistent native-migrant gap. One part of the gap can be attributed to differences in socioeconomic background and another part remains unexplained....

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From Farmers to Merchants: A Human Capital Interpretation of Jewish Economic History

Botticini, Maristella; Eckstein, Zvi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

Since the Middle Ages the Jews have been engaged primarily in urban, skilled occupations, such as crafts, trade, finance, and medicine. This distinctive occupational selection occurred between the seventh and the ninth centuries in the Muslim Empire and then it spread to other locations. We...

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A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain

Docquier, Frédéric; Marfouk, Marfouk; Lowell, B. Lindsay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration by educational attainment. We use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by level of...

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Migration and Diversity: Human versus Social Capital

Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper examines the welfare implications associated with different degrees of diversity or similarity between migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social capital and find that there are three equilibrium...

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Differences in Employment Outcomes for College Town Stayers and Leavers

Winters, John V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Areas surrounding colleges and universities are often able to build their local stock of human capital by retaining recent graduates in the area after they finish their education. This paper classifies 41 U.S. metropolitan areas as "college towns" and investigates differences in employment...

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Why Are Educated and Risk-Loving Persons More Mobile Across Regions?

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Why are better educated and more risk-friendly persons more mobile across regions? To answer this question, we use micro data on internal migrants from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) 2000-2006 and merge this information with a unique proxy for region-pair-specific cultural distances...

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Acquiring Human Capital through the Generations by Migration

Smith, James P.; Delaney, Liam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Our focus will be on the role of migration to the United States from a set of important European sending countries as a device for improving the human capital of the children and grandchildren of migrants as measured by their education. In this paper, we derive a new and conceptual more...

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