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Labour mobility with vocational skill: Australian demand and pacific supply
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2021
How many immigrants with less than university education, for a given immigration quota, maximise economic output? The …
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Train drain? : access to skilled foreign workers and firms' provision of training
Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2021
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Train drain? : access to skilled foreign workers and firms' provision of training
Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2021
Does better access to skilled workers reduce firms' willingness to provide general skills training to unskilled workers? We analyze how the gradual opening of the Swiss labor market to workers from the European Union affected the number of apprenticeship positions that firms provide. We exploit...
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The native-born occupational skill response to immigration within education and experience cells
Gu, Emily; Sparber, Chad - In: Eastern economic journal 43 (2017) 3, pp. 426-450
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Trainspotting : "good jobs", training and skilled immigration
Mountford, Andrew; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2019
While skilled immigration ceteris paribus provides an immediate boost to GDP per capita by adding to the human capital … indigenous workers? We analyse this issue theoretically and empirically. The theoretical model shows how skilled immigration can … workers have declined in a period where immigration has been rising strongly, and have declined significantly more in high …
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The effect of immigrant peers in vocational schools
Frattini, Tommaso; Meschi, Elena - 2017
This paper provides new evidence on how the presence of immigrant peers in the classroom affects native student achievement. The analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data on two cohorts of vocational training students in Italy's largest region. Vocational training institutions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011732074
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Smart policy toward high-skill emigrants : many proposed policies on skilled migration do little to improve skill stocks or development outcomes, but promising options exist
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
Immigration officials in rich countries are being asked to become overseas development officials, charged with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433686
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Making the most of skills in Denmark
Jamet, Stéphanie; Koen, Vincent - 2014
Surveys suggest that Denmark ranks close to or slightly above the OECD average in terms of student and adult skills, even though Denmark spends more than many OECD countries on education, labour market policies and adult learning. Sluggish productivity growth over the past two decades raises the...
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Essays on immigration, human capital and technical change
Beerli, Andreas - 2015
the country. We find that the abolition of immigration restrictions increased the share of new immigrants by four …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474006
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The Effect of Immigrant Peers in Vocational Schools
Frattini, Tommaso - 2017
This paper provides new evidence on how the presence of immigrant peers in the classroom affects native student achievement. The analysis is based on longitudinal administrative data on two cohorts of vocational training students in Italy's largest region. Vocational training institutions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946527