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Cognitive and Noncognitive Skills and the Selection and Sorting of Migrants

Butikofer, Aline - 2017

outcomes of individuals. In this paper, we analyze how they affect the migration decisions of individuals over their lifecycles … this involves rural-urban, long distance, or international migration. Adaptability has a particularly strong impact on … migration for individuals with low cognitive skills, implying a strong positive selection of less educated migrants with respect …

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Welfare Magnet Hypothesis, Fiscal Burden and Immigration Skill Selectivity

Razin, Asaf - 2011

between skilled and unskilled migration rates. The main purpose of the paper is to assess the role of mobility restriction on … shaping the effect of the welfare state genrosity. In a free migration regime, the impact is expected to be negative on the … selective migration policies, favoring skilled migrants who tend to be net contributors to the fiscal system. We utilize the …

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Substitution between Immigrants, Natives, and Skill Groups

Borjas, George J. - 2011

The wage impact of immigration depends crucially on the elasticity of substitution between similarly skilled immigrants and natives and the elasticity of substitution between high school dropouts and graduates. This paper revisits the estimation of these elasticities. The U.S. data indicate that...

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Does Immigration Hurt African-American Self-Employment?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Meyer, Bruce D. - 2021

Previous studies tend to find that immigration has a weak negative effect on the employment and earnings of native-born workers. These studies overlook the effect of immigration on an important sector of the labor force, the self- employed. Anecdotal evidence suggests that immigrants, especially...

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The Selection of Migrants and Returnees : Evidence from Romania and Implications

Ambrosini, William - 2011

This paper uses census and survey data to identify the wage earning ability and the selectivity of recent Romanian …-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. We find evidence for a … sorting of migrants consistent with skill compensation in destination countries. The premium to return migration increases …

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How Much Does Immigration Boost Innovation?

Hunt, Jennifer - 2010

We measure the extent to which skilled immigrants increase innovation in the United States by exploring individual patenting behavior as well as state-level determinants of patenting. The 2003 National Survey of College Graduates shows that immigrants patent at double the native rate, and that...

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Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants

Grogger, Jeffrey - 2010

alternative specifications of international migration, estimate the magnitude of migration costs by source-destination pair, and …

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Immigrants' and Native Workers : New Analysis on Longitudinal Data

Foged, Mette - 2013

Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...

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International Migration, Self-Selection, and the Distribution of Wages : Evidence from Mexico and the United States

Chiquiar, Daniel; Hanson, Gordon H. - 2022

observable skills there is intermediate or positive selection of immigrants from Mexico. The results also suggest that migration …

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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe

D’Amuri, Francesco - 2011

In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...

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