The H-1B program allows skilled foreign-born individuals to work in the United States. The annual quota on new H-1B issuances fell from 195,000 to 65,000 for employees of most firms in fiscal year 2004. This cap did not apply to new employees of colleges, universities, and non-profit research...

This open access book offers new insights into the ageing-migration nexus and the nature of home. Documenting the hidden world of France’s migrant worker hostels, it explores why older North and West African men continue to live past retirement age in this sub-standard housing. Conventional...

Die Entwicklung der schweizerischen Volkswirtschaft ist stark von der Zuwanderung ausländischer Arbeitskräfte geprägt. Strukturelle Veränderungen im Migrationsangebot und in der Migrationsnachfrage haben dazu geführt, daß die schweizerische Migrationspolitik vor großen Herausforderungen...

European politics has provided clear signals: the next round in the process of EU enlargement with the accession of the Central and Eastern European countries (CEEC) will come. Since expectations concerning the costs and benefits of integration are varied, it is our aim to contribute to this...

Die Migration von Pflegekräften spielt seit Jahren eine wichtige Rolle in der Pflege. Österreich zählt dabei, obwohl von der Forschung bisher wenig beachtet, zu einem wichtigen Zielland. Dieses Buch befasst sich ausführlich mit diesem Phänomen. Es setzt sich zunächst mithilfe einer eigenen...

Bereits in den letzten Jahren haben Zuwanderer erheblich zur Fachkräftesicherung in MINT-Berufen beigetragen. Bestrebungen, MINT-Zuwanderer aus dem Herkunftsland Indien zu gewinnen, zeigen erste Erfolge – sowohl die Zahl der Beschäftigten in akademischen MINT-Berufen als auch die Zahl der...

In recent years, qualified immigration has started to play a significant role for the German labour market, especially for securing skilled STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) employment. Efforts made to attract STEM immigrants from India are starting to show signs of...

The economic effects from labor market integration are crucially affected by the extent to which countries are open to trade. In this paper we build a multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model with trade in goods and labor mobility across countries to study and quantify the economic...

This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search frictions and non-random hiring that is consistent with novel empirical evidence presented. In this framework, undocumented immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their...

The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and aggregation biases. Ours is among the first papers to address both of these issues by means of causality analysis and by accounting for human capital endowments. Our analysis confirms...

This paper investigates how beliefs of the destination country’s population in social mobility may influence the location choice of high-skilled migrants. We pool macro data from the IAB brain drain dataset with population survey data from the ISSP for the period 1987-2010 to identify the...

Housing markets of large cities around the world, particularly in so-called developing and emerging countries, are currently experiencing a clash: On the one hand, large numbers of labour migrants arrive from rural areas and need cheap rental housing. On the other hand, international real estate...

An important class of active labor market policy has received little rigorous impact evaluation: immigration barriers intended to improve the terms of employment for domestic workers by deliberately shrinking the workforce. Recent advances in the theory of endogenous technical change suggest...

Applying propensity score reweighting to Italian administrative data covering the period 1994-2012, we study the conditional distributions of injuries by wage of native and foreign workers and distinguish between the component that is explained by observable characteristics and the component...

The free movement of people and of workers (intra EU mobility) is one of the corner-stones of the EU. It has overwhelmingly benefitted the citizens of the EU member states both in the countries of work and in the countries of origin. Earlier apprehensions on crowding out of less educated workers...

Die Blaue Karte hat sich als Zugangsweg für Hochqualifizierte nach Deutschland bewährt. Seit 2012 ist die Zahl der vergebenen Karten kontinuierlich gestiegen. Eine weitere Absenkung der Gehaltsschwellen könnte den Aufenthaltstitel allerdings für Zuwanderungsinteressierte noch attraktiver und...

The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...

Im zweiten Quartal 2015 wurden im Rahmen der IAB-Stellenerhebung 8.922 Betriebsstätten zu Ihren Erfahrungen bei der Personalsuche im Ausland befragt. Hochgerechnet haben über 100.000 Betriebe in Deutschland zwischen dem zweiten Quartal 2014 und dem zweiten Quartal 2015 eine Person direkt aus...