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Does foreign language proficiency foster migration of young individuals within the European Union?

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainoa; Kuehn, Zoë - 2014

, we test whether and how much language proficiency determines migration flows across Europe. The European Union with …

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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- and underqualification rates to other EU countries. The skill structure of foreign born residing in Austria has improved slightly in the last years. Austria is, however,...

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Skill transferability and immigrant-native wage gaps

Rosso, Anna - 2016

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Skills in African labor markets and implications for migration to Europe

Backhaus, Andreas - 2020

This paper assesses the potential for skilled labor migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. It utilizes … hypothetical scenarios for skilled labor migration from the African to the European countries. It is demonstrated that the European … distribution where employment rates are low. Hence, more regular and skilled labor migration from African countries will unlikely …

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The impact of migration on family left behind : estimation in presence of intra-household selection of migrants

Murard, Elie - 2019

This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as … generates additional identification problems that have remained largely ignored. To tackle this second form of selectivity …

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Brain drain and brain gain : the global competition to attract high-skilled migrants ; [prepared for the 11. European Conference of the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti, held in Pisa in May 2009]

Boeri, Tito (ed.) - 2012 - 1. ed.

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New directions in immigration policy : Canada's evolving approach to the selection of economic immigrants

Ferrer, Ana M.; Picot, Garnett; Riddell, William Craig - 2014

Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labor market shortages often associated with commodity booms,...

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The occupations and human capital of U.S. immigrants

Schoellman, Todd - 2009

This paper estimates the multi-dimensional human capital endowments of immigrants by characterizing their occupational decisions. This approach allows for estimation of physical skill and cognitive ability endowments, which are difficult to measure directly. Estimation implies that immigrants as...

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How well does education travel? : education and occupation with and without migration

Gächter, August; Smoliner, Stefanie - 2010

Using the Labour Force Survey (LFS) we explore the difference international migration makes for the distribution of …

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A joint hazard-longitudinal model of the timing of migration, immigrant quality, and labor market assimilation

Jain, Apoorva; Sabirianova Peter, Klara - 2017

This paper develops and estimates a joint hazard-longitudinal (JHL) model of the timing of migration and labor market … endogenous age of entry in estimating the returns to years since migration by allowing cross-equation correlations of random …

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