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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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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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Demand and supply effects on native-immigrant wage differentials : the case of Malaysia

Abdullah, Borhan; Zangelidis, Alexandros; Theodossiou, … - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-17

This paper uses a matched employee-employer dataset using the Productivity and Investment Climate Survey 2007 to assess the relative effect of demand and supply-side characteristics on the wages of native and immigrant workers in Malaysia. In doing so, the study demonstrates noteworthy...

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Earnings differentials between immigrants and natives : the role of occupational attainment

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-18

This paper brings new evidence to the existing literature on earnings differentials and returns to human capital for immigrants and natives. It is the first paper analysing this topic using data drawn from the Italian Labour Force Survey, a large nationally representative dataset. We show that...

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Overeducation among immigrants in Sweden : incidence, wage effects and state dependence

Joona, Pernilla Andersson; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; … - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-23

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. Using Swedish register data from 2001 - 2008, we extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by analyzing incidence, wage effects and state dependence in...

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Chapter 25. Immigrants in Israel

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1363-1420). 2015

Israel perceives the immigration of Jews as one of its major goals and thus it applies no selection rules towards them. Jewish immigration to Israel hailed from Arab countries as well as European countries. While immigration has shaped the rate of growth of Israel's Jewish population it has also...

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The returns to occupational foreign language use: Evidence from Germany

Stöhr, Tobias - In: Labour Economics 32 (2015) C, pp. 86-98

This paper analyzes the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 0.12 log points to applying fluent English skills are found in the...

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Women's economic rights in developing countries and the gender gap in migration to Germany

Neumayer, Eric; Plümper, Thomas - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-23

that women's economic rights in developing countries of origin have three effects on their migration prospects to a place …'s agency to make or otherwise influence migration decisions. These two constraining effects on the female share in migrant … powerful push factor. We find corroborating evidence in our analysis of the gender composition of migration to Germany over the …

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Skill mismatch among migrant workers : evidence from a large multi-country dataset

Visintin, Stefano; Tijdens, Kea Gartje; Klaveren, … - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-34

This article unravels the migrants' incidence of skill mismatch taking into consideration different migration flows … destination combinations, which allows for detailed analysis of different migration flows. This provides an innovative multi …

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Immigration and wages : new evidence from the African American Great Migration

Gardner, John - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 22, pp. 1-45

During the African American Great Migration, millions of blacks left the Southern USA in favor of cities in the North …. Despite the social and economic consequences of this migration, the question of its impacts on labor markets in the North has … aggregate Northern labor market to provide new evidence on the effects of the Great Migration on wages in the North, redoubling …

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