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Composition and determinants of the skilled out-migration in the Brazilian formal labor market : a panel data analysis from 1995 to 2006

Freguglia, Ricardo da Silva; Gonçalves, Eduardo; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 15 (2014) 1, pp. 100-117

confirm the importance of wage differentials in determining such mobility. Furthermore, an increased skilled out-migration …

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Russian migrants to Russia : assimilation and local labor market effects

Lazareva, Olga - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-25

after about ten years after the peak of migration wave. …

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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13

. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …

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Dynamics of employment assimilation

Akay, Alpaslan - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 13, pp. 1-22

This paper investigates the dynamics of immigrants' employment assimilation in comparison with the standard static assimilation model. When the effect of past employment experience on current employment possibilities differs between immigrants and natives, then the static assimilation model...

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Is the lower return to immigrants' foreign schooling a postarrival problem in Canada?

Aydede, Yigit; Dar, Atul A. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 6 (2016) 4, pp. 1-25

Using the 2006 Canadian Census, this paper investigates the lower return to immigrants’ foreign education credentials after adjusting for their occupational matching in hosting labor markets. We develop two continuous indices that quantify the matching quality of the native-born in both...

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Born abroad and educated here : examining the impacts of education and skill mismatch among immigrant graduates in Europe

McGuinness, Séamus; Byrne, Delma - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-30

This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred...

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Social-family network and self-employment : evidence from temporary rural-urban migrants in China

Zhang, Junfu; Zhao, Zhong - In: IZA journal of labor & development 4 (2015) 4, pp. 1-21

We hypothesize that individuals with a larger social-family network are more likely to choose self-employment. We test this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is measured by the number of relatives and friends this...

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Nominal and real wage rigidity : does nationality matter?

Cabral, Sónia; Duarte, Cláudia - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 13, pp. 1-20

We assess the differences in downward nominal and real wage rigidity between natives and immigrants in Portugal, using a matched employer-employee database and the International Wage Flexibility Project (IWFP) methodology. This methodology estimates a notional or counterfactual distribution that...

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Source country characteristics and immigrants’ optimal migration duration decision

Kırdar, Murat G. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

This paper examines how immigrants’ optimal migration duration in the host country responds to the purchasing power … parity (ppp) and relative wages between the host and source countries. A theoretical model of joint migration duration and … saving decisions reveals that the optimal migration duration decreases in ppp unless the elasticity of intertemporal …

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Self-selection patterns among return migrants : Mexico 1990-2010

Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Lara, Jaime - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-18

This paper analyzes the self-selection patterns among Mexican return migrants during the period 1990–2010. To calculate the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have experienced had they never migrated by using the wage...

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