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immigration due to its apparently unbearable social and political costs. However these costs are never measured and made … comparable across countries. In this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal … information on such costs and, once coupled with a matching mechanism taking into account migrants' preferences, generate …
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inefficient as it fails to internalize such externality. In addition, host countries quite often restrict immigration due to its … this paper we first discuss theoretically how tradable immigration quotas (TIQs) can reveal countries' comparative … advantage in hosting immigrants and, once coupled with a matching mechanism taking migrants' preferences over destinations and …
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-skilled labor, leading many European economists to argue for an immigration policy directed at actively recruiting highly qualified … workers from abroad. It has further been argued that an immigration policy that is tailored to attract young and economically … successful migrants can alleviate some of the demographic burden associated with an aging population.We embed this discussion …
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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities … immigration. …
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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
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This paper investigates the transferability of human capital across countries and the contribution of imperfect human capital portability to the explanation of the immigrant-native wage gap. Using data for West Germany, our results reveal that, overall, education and labor market experience...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271804
Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant?s country in the host region. Using …-village-specific variables on migrants? location choice. …
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on the migrant?s decision of where to migrate. Moreover, the significance and size of the effects vary according to the …
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, dass eine auf die Arbeitsmarkt- und Integrationsfähigkeit von Migranten ausgerichtete selektive Zuwanderungspolitik, wie …
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Arbeitsmarkt- und Integrationsfähigkeit von Migranten ausgerichtete selektive Zuwanderungspolitik, wie sie teilweise im neuen …
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