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Limits to wage growth : understanding the wage divergence between immigrants and natives

Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017

to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …

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The supply of foreign talent : how skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants

Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes - 2021

An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...

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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification based on nonparametric estimation

Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002

This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...

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Are immigrants competing with natives in the Italian labour market? : the employment effect

Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002

Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...

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Bounding the price equivalent of migration barriers

Clemens, Michael A.; Montenegro, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

.S. immigrant workers and workers in their 42 home countries. The average price equivalent of migration barriers in this setting …

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Worker remittances and capital flows

Buch, Claudia M.; Kuckulenz, Anja; Le Manchec, … - 2002

The debate on the risks and benefits of the globalisation of international capital markets has focused on the volume and the volatility of the main capital flows - foreign direct investment (FDI), portfolio investment, and foreign bank lending. Financial transfers in the form of worker...

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EU enlargement and labour-force migration : proposals for a gradual convergence of labour markets

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Flaig, Gebhard; Werding, Martin; … - Max-Planck-Institut für Ausländisches und … - 2001

estimate the migration potential after EU enlargement, econometric-based simulation models are used for the four most heavily …

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Return migration and socioeconomic mobility in MENA : evidence from labour market panel surveys

Hlasny, Vladimir; AlAzzawi, Shireen - 2018

This study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of … function of their migration histories. Return migrants, current migrants, and (yet) non-migrants are distinguished. Transitions …, demographics and migration status. Migration patterns are found to differ systematically between Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, as well …

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Regional migration and wage inequality in the West African Economic and Monetary Union

Girsberger, Esther Mirjam; Méango, Romuald; Rapoport, … - 2018

We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic … migrants in absence of migration to evaluate the effect of regional migration when the effect of migration is purely … compositional (i.e., when wages are treated as exogenous). We find that regional migration increases average wages by 1.8% and …

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Knowledge remittances : does emigration foster innovation?

Fackler, Thomas; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018

? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …

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