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Two and a half million Syrian refugees, skill mix and capital intensity

Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; Torun, Huzeyfe - 2018

refugees changed the tasks performed by native workers and the amount of capital used by firms in Turkey. Despite the … unexpected nature of the refugee inflow, location choice of the refugees may be endogenous to the labor market opportunities of … Turkish regions to the Syrian ones. The results based on Labor Force Survey suggest that the inflow of refugees increased …

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Skill Downgrading Among Refugees and Economic Immigrants in Germany : Evidence from the Syrian Refugee Crisis

Nikolov, Plamen; Salarpour Goodarzi, Leila - 2022

examines the determinants of skill downgrading among two types of immigrants – refugees and economic immigrants – in the German … labor markets between 1984 and 2018. We find that refugees downgrade more than economic immigrants, and this discrepancy …

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Rejuvenating Greece's labour market to generate more and higher-quality jobs

Bulman, Tim - 2020

Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The shock led to a sharp fall in labour force...

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The role of skills and tasks in changing employment trends and income inequality in Chile

Zapata-Román, Gabriela - 2021

Using decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment, wage inequality, and job polarization in Chile from 1992 to 2017. Changes in occupational structure confirm a displacement of workers from low-skill occupations towards jobs...

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Immigrants' effect on native workers : new analysis on longitudinal data

Foged, Mette; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...

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Improving well-being in New Zealand through migration

Carey, David - 2019

not adversely affected the wage or employment outcomes of the average NZ-born worker. However, temporary migration has had … relative to the comparable NZ-born. New Zealand has refined the migration system over the years to attract those who are more …

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To work or to study? : postmigration educational investments of adult refugees in Germany - evidence from a choice experiment

Damelang, Andreas; Kosyakova, Yuliya - 2020

a decision process among refugees in Germany and examine the determinants of investment decisions into host country …-specific credentials such as vocational education. The choice experiment was introduced in the IAB-BAMF-SOEP Survey of Refugees (2020), a … representative longitudinal survey of recently arrived refugees in Germany. We find that refugees' probability of investing in …

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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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Human Capital as Engine of Growth the Role of Knowledge Transfers in Promoting Balanced Growth within and across Countries

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2020

Unlike physical capital, human capital has both embodied and disembodied dimensions. It can be perceived of as skill and acquired knowledge, but also as knowledge spillover effects between overlapping generations and across different skill groups within and across countries. We illustrate the...

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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 answer is zero in the canonical model of the labour market, where the marginal product of a university-educated immigrant is always higher. We build an alternative model in which...

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