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Self-Selection and the Performance of Return Migrants: the Source Country Perspective.

Piracha, Matloob; Coulon, Augustin de - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two main questions: (i) Had they chosen not to migrate, what would be the performance of return migrants compared to the non-migrants? and (ii) What would be the...

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Why Are Migrants Paid More?

Bryson, Alex; Rossi, Giambattista; Simmons, Rob - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

In efficient global labour markets for very high wage workers one might expect wage differentials between migrant and domestic workers to reflect differences in labour productivity. However, using panel data on worker-firm matches in a single industry over a seven year period we find a...

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Immigration, Diversity and the Labour Market Outcomes of Native Workers: Some Recent Developments

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

This brief essay provides a selective discussion of how in recent years economists in the neoclassical tradition have addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers' labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses: the distinction between the displacement,...

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Assimilation of Migrants into the British Labour Market

Dickens, Richard; McKnight, Abigail - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

This paper discusses the extent to which migrants to Britain have been assimilated into the workforce. Migration into …

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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most from the competition created by offshore and immigrant workers? In contrast to the existing literature that has mostly looked at the effects of offshoring and immigration...

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Is the Medical Brain Drain Beneficial? Evidence from Overseas Doctors in the UK

Commander, Simon; Kangasniemi, Mari; Winters, L. Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

The ¿beneficial brain drain¿ hypothesis suggests that skilled migration can be good for a sending countrybecause the … degree of screening of migrants by the host country is limited and that thepossibility of migration actually encourages home … country residents to obtain education. We studied theimplications of doctors¿ migration by conducting a survey among overseas …

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Change and Continuity Among Minority Communities in Britain

Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

There is widespread concern currently that some ethnic minority communities within Britain, especially Muslim, are not following the stereotypical immigrant path of economic and cultural assimilation into British society. Indeed, many seem to have the impression that differences between Muslims...

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The Careers of Immigrants

Matos, Ana Damas de - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

I use a unique linked employer employee panel covering all wage earners in the private sector in Portugal to shed new light on the careers of immigrants. During the first ten years in the country immigrants close one third of the initial immigrant-native wage gap. I show that one third of this...

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On the Relative Gains to Immigration: A Comparison of the Labour Market Position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India

Wadsworth, Jonathan; Coulon, Augustin de - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

also be important. This will in turn be influenced by differential levels of supply, demand and migration costs across the …

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Networks in the Premodern Economy: the Market for London Apprenticeships, 1600-1749

Leunig, Tim; Minns, Chris; Wallis, Patrick - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

This paper examines the importance of social and geographical networks in structuring entry into skilled occupations in premodern London. Using newly digitised records of those beginning an apprenticeship in London between 1600 and 1749, we find little evidence that networks strongly shaped...

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