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Introduction

Chiswick, Barry R. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. xiii-xv). 2015

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Introduction

Chiswick, Barry R. - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. xiii-xv). 2015

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025461

The effect of attitudes toward migrants on migrant skill composition

Avdiu, Besart - 2018

I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants can reduce the average skill composition. The … hypothesis, I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …

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Immigrant performance and selective immigration policy : a European perspective

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005

The European Union aims at a stronger participation by its population in work to foster growth and welfare. There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labour force, and discussions about the necessary policy responses. Integrated labour and migration policies are needed. The...

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Chinese Immigrants in the United States : New Issues and Challenges

Hu, Xiaochu - 2016

This chapter aims at an overall portrait of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. using the most update data and information, identifying relevant literature and research sources, filling in the issues of China-born immigrants in the U.S. that the previous literature hasn’t mentioned, as well as...

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Immigrants in Finance

Chen, Jun; Hshieh, Shenje; Teo, Melvyn; Zhang, Feng - 2023

We examine the value of skilled immigrants in finance by exploiting two natural experiments. We find that hedge fund management companies that secure more H-1B visas in random lotteries deliver higher alphas, Sharpe ratios, and information ratios. Moreover, an unexpected reduction in the H-1B...

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Do Immigrants Ever Oppose Immigration?

Kaeser, Aflatun; Tani, Massimiliano - 2022

This paper analyses immigrants' views about immigration, filling an important void in the immigration literature. In particular, it explores the role of statistical discrimination as a cause of possible opposition to immigration in absence of stringent immigration policies and large volumes of...

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Do high-skilled immigrants find jobs faster than low-skilled immigrants? : conference paper

Hochfellner, Daniela; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2014 - Preliminary version: 27th February 2014

This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We first show theoretically that the job-finding rate for the high-skilled varies depending on their search strategy: if they are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as...

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Legalizing undocumented immigrants : while legalization benefits most undocumented immigrants, deciding how to regularize them is challenging

Bansak, Cynthia - 2016

Addressing unauthorized immigration is controversial. Countries have adopted a variety of legalization programs, ranging from temporary visa programs to naturalization. Research in the US focused on past amnesty programs finds improved labor market outcomes for newly legalized immigrants....

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Qualification structure, over- and underqualification of the foreign born in Austria and the EU

Huber, Peter; Nowotny, Klaus; Bock-Schappelwein, Julia - 2010

This project focuses on comparing the qualification structure of migrants residing in Austria as well as their over … slightly in the last years. Austria is, however, characterised by a high share of medium skilled migrants and a low share of … highly skilled migrants. In addition among the pool of migrants in the EU from a given country, Austria generally selects the …

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