Download or read book Essays on High skilled Migration written by Shu-Ming Lin and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is comprised of three essays that focus on high-skilled migrations and how these are influenced by public policy and their economic impacts. The first essay links finance theory to labor economics and political economy in the context of migration and immigration policy. Using event study analysis, I measure the impact of immigration policy on the profit of employers and shareholders, in particular the American Competitiveness and Workforce Improvement Act (ACWIA) of 1998 nearly doubled the available number of H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers in FY 1999. The empirical results show that top H-1B visa user industries enjoyed significant and positive excess returns with the passage of the ACWIA of 1998, while industries with little need for H-1B visas experienced no significant changes. Robustness checks including international comparisons, nonparametric modeling and a sample-split Chow structural break test support the results. In the second essay, I investigate the findings of the first essay by employing two multi-factor models-Fama-French three-factor model and Fama-French-momentum four-factor model. Fama and French (1993) claim that the three-factor model does a better job isolating the firm-specific components of returns. In contrast, Campbell, Lo and Mackinlay (1997) argue that in practice the gains from employing multi-factor models for modeling the normal returns are limited. The results support the point of Campbell, Lo and Mackinlay (1997). In the third essay, I use microdata on immigrants from the 1990 and 2000 U.S. censuses to examine the growing earnings differentials between foreign-born Taiwanese and all other foreign-born immigrants. By decomposing the earnings gap, I show that over one-third of this gap (36% in 1990, 37% in 2000) can be attributed to the better endowment (higher education) of the Taiwanese. Among foreign-born Taiwanese from 1960 to 1999, 60% of the master degrees, 80% of the professional degrees and 92% of the doctorate degrees were earned in the United States. The growing numbers and rising percentage of U.S. earned degrees among the Taiwanese indicate their higher earnings relative to other immigrants in 1990 and 2000 can be attributed to their successful economic assimilation into the United States.

Download or read book Migration Without Borders written by Antoine Pécoud and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International migration is high on the public and political agenda of many countries, as the movement of people raises concerns while often eluding states attempts at regulation. In this context, the scenario challenges conventional views on the need to control and restrict migration flows. This book explores the analytical issues raised by open borders, in terms of ethics, human rights, economic development, politics, social cohesion and welfare, and provides in-depth empirical investigations of how free movement is addressed and governed in Europe, Africa, the Americas and Asia.--Publisher's description.

Download or read book Highly Skilled Migration Science and Innovation written by Edoardo Ferrucci and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Migration Citizenship and Identity written by Stephen Castles and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-06-30 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen Castles provides a deeper understanding of recent ‘migration crises’ in this fascinating and highly topical work. The book links theory and methodology to real-world migration experiences, with a truly global perspective and in-depth analysis of the links between economics, migration and asylum and refugee issues.

Download or read book Essays on Offshoring and High skilled Migration written by Jens Wrona and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Highly Skilled Migration Between Settlement and Mobility written by Agnieszka Weinar and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-05-27 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This open access short reader discusses the emerging patterns of sedentary migration versus mobility of the highly-skilled thereby providing a comprehensive overview of the recent literature on highly-skilled migration. Highly-skilled migrations are arguably the only non-controversial migrant category in political and public discourse. The common perception is that highly-skilled migrants are high-earners with top educational skills and that they are easy to integrate. These perceptions make them a “wanted” migrant. There seems to be however a big divide between the popular perceptions of this migration and its realities uncovered in social research. This publication closes this divide by delving deeper in the variety of experiences, discourses and realities of highly skilled migrants, thereby uncovering the inherent divides between the highly skilled migrants from the North and the South. The reader shows that these divides are constructed realities, shaped by the state policies and underpinned by social imaginary. Written in an accessible language this reader is a perfect read for academics, students and policy makers and all those unfamiliar with the topic.

Download or read book Three Essays on Low skilled Migration Sustainability and Trade in Services written by Catherine Alexandra Milot and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chapter 1 Low-skilled Migration and Altruism: Population ageing has become a common concern among welfare states, including Canada and most of the OECD countries. Immigration has been identified as a solution to help sustain labour-force growth in industrialized countries, and as the factor most able to mitigate dire predictions of future fiscal imbalances. This chapter examines the impact of low-skilled immigration in a host country where households are altruists with a pay-as-you-go pension system to support the elderly. It demonstrates that low-skilled immigration does not harm the welfare of the domestic population. We use an overlapping-generations model similar to the work of Razin and Sadka (2000) but introduce paternalistic altruism into the life-cycle framework. Within this context of inter-generational altruism and pay-as-you-go pension systems, the initial negative fiscal impact of low-skilled migrants is compensated, thus, all income groups (high and low) and all age groups (young and old) benefit from migration. // Chapter 2 Growth and Sustainability: In light of the major environmental issues experienced by several countries in the last decades, several papers have advocated the rethinking of the role of governments in environmental preservation. This chapter develops an overlapping-generations model of environmental quality and production and investigates the potential role of governmental participation in the preservation of the quality of the environment so as to achieve both economic growth and environmental sustainability. The analysis suggests that long term economic growth and environment sustainability can be maintained with tax-funded environmental programs in a context of a negative production externality on the quality of the environment. // Chapter 3 The Incidence of Geography on Canada's Services Trade: We estimate geographic barriers to export trade in nine service categories for Canada's provinces from 1997 to 2007 using the structural gravity model. Constructed Home, Domestic and Foreign Bias indexes capture the direct plus indirect effect of services trade costs on intra-provincial, inter-provincial and international trade relative to their frictionless benchmarks. Barriers to services international trade are huge relative to inter-provincial trade and large relative to goods international trade. A novel test confirms the fit of structural gravity with services trade data.

Download or read book Measuring the International Mobility of Inventors A New Database written by Ernest Miguelez and published by WIPO. This book was released on 2013 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper has two objectives. First, it describes a new database mapping migratory patterns of inventors, extracted from information included in patent applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty. It explains in detail the information contained in the database and discusses the usefulness and reliability of the underlying data. Second, the paper provides a descriptive overview of inventor migration patterns, based on the information contained in the newly constructed database.

Download or read book Essays on Immigration in the United States written by Bin Xie and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thesis I study immigrants and immigration policies in the historical and modern United States. This thesis is composed of three chapters concerning the impact of immigrants on the US economy and the labor market performance of immigrants. In the first two chapters, I study the effects of the historical immigration quota system on manufacturing wages, the internal migration of the black population, and industrial development of the manufacturing sector. In Chapter 3, I turn to high-skilled immigrants in the modern US and study the ability of high-skilled immigrants to transfer their foreign human capital to the US and what affects immigrants' human capital transferability. In Chapter 1, I recount the immigration quota system established in the 1920s US and use it as a natural experiment to identify the effects of immigration on the manufacturing wages between 1920 and 1930. The immigration quota system was established in 1921 and permanently in 1924 that severely restricted immigrant inflow from Southern and Eastern Europe while imposing a modest restriction on Western and Northern European immigrants. Hence US regions that historically had received more Eastern and Southern European immigrants experienced a greater decline in the supply of immigrants caused by the quotas. I estimate the number of immigrants excluded from each US region by the quotas as the instrumental variable for the change in the regional immigrant share in this decade. I find that the more immigrants excluded from a US region by the quota system led to a greater decrease in the foreign-born population share and significantly increased the regional manufacturing wage level. In Chapter 2, I use the immigration quota system to examine the effect of immigrants on the labor mobility of the native black population and the adjustments of industrial production in the manufacturing sector. I show a causal relationship between immigration restriction and the Great Migration of the southern black population: a greater decline in the supply of immigrants resulted in a greater inflow of black migrants. Regarding industrial development, I find that a region that experienced a greater decline in immigrant supply had a slower growth of the scale of production and electrification in the manufacturing sector. In Chapter 3, I study the return to human capital of US high-skilled immigrants using the National Survey of College Graduates. I find that high-skilled immigrants can not fully transfer their foreign human capital and have a low return to foreign human capital. STEM immigrants overall have a higher return to foreign experience and to foreign bachelor than non-STEM immigrants. I show that better mastery of English helps non-STEM immigrants transfer more foreign human capital and enjoy a higher return. STEM immigrants transfer more foreign human capital in general than non-STEM immigrants and their transferability of foreign human capital is not significantly affected by English skills probably because STEM-related human capital is less language-specific. I also find that immigrants who originally entered the US with temporary work visas have a slightly higher return to foreign human capital but a lower return to US human capital than immigrants with other entry visas.

Download or read book High Skilled Migration written by Mathias Czaika and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political and scientific debates on migration policies have mostly focused on governments' efforts to control or reduce low-skilled, asylum, and irregular migration or to encourage the return migration of these categories. Less research and constructive discourse has been conducted on the role and effectiveness of policies to attract or retain high-skilled workers. An improved understanding of the drivers and dynamics of high-skilled migration is essential for effective policy-making, as most highly developed and emerging economies experience growing shortages of high-skilled labour supply in certain occupations and sectors, and skilled immigration is often viewed as one way of addressing these. Simplistic assumptions that high-skilled migrants are primarily in pursuit of higher wages raise the expectation that policies which open channels for high-skilled immigration are generally successful. Although many countries have introduced policies aimed at attracting and facilitating the recruitment of high-skilled workers, not all recruitment efforts have had the desired effects, and anecdotal evidence on the effectiveness of these programmes is rather mixed. The reason is that the rather narrow focus on migration policy coincides with a lack of systematic and rigorous consideration of other economic, social, and political drivers of migration, which may be equally - or sometimes even more - important than migration policies per se. A better understanding of migration policies, their making, consequences and limitations, requires a systematic knowledge of the broader economic, social and political structures and their interaction in both origin and destination countries. This book enhances this vibrant field of social scientific enquiry by providing a systematic, multidisciplinary, and global analysis of policies driving international high-skilled migration processes in their interaction with other migration drivers at the individual, city, national, and international level.

Download or read book Three Essays on the Role of Skills and Education in Immigration and Self employment written by Magnus Lofstrom and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book High Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market written by Barry R. Chiswick and published by Government Institutes. This book was released on 2011-02-16 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent U.S. immigration reform proposals have focused almost exclusively on regulating the population of low-skilled foreign workers. High-Skilled Immigration in a Global Labor Market contends that policymakers should focus more on attracting immigrants with exclusive skill sets-professional, technical, and managerial (PTM) workers. PTM workers positively impact the economy by expanding production capability, increasing the growth rate of total factor productivity, and enhancing international competitiveness. Barry R. Chiswick and his coauthors examine the policies established by other OECD countries (such as Australia, Canada, and New Zealand) to attract foreign PTM workers and explore how U.S. immigration policy could be altered to maximize the economic benefits of high-skilled immigration.

Download or read book Essays on Economics of High skill Immigration written by Ying Shen and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Immigration Integration and Mobility written by Adrian Favell and published by . This book was released on 2015-01-16 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of Adrian Favell's innovative and agenda-setting essays which, since the late 1990s, have charted the emergence of new migration patterns and politics in Europe. Tackling in turn issues of multiculturalism, immigrant integration, free movement, high skilled mobilities, new East-West migrations and regional integration, the collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the dynamic field of international migration studies. At the same time, it poses a sharp challenge to current complacencies, challenging researchers to escape methodological nationalism and the unreflective reproduction of concepts and assumptions in the field, as well as embracing new methodologies and theoretical resources. Moving fluidly across intellectual boundaries as much as national borders, Favell points the way forward to new thinking in this burgeoning and rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field. 'Migration studies is an increasingly vital, but also increasingly crowded field, where the cacophony of voices threatens to drown out any clear message. The exception is found in this volume of beautifully written essays, which puts Adrian Favell's trademark iconoclasm, crackling wit, and deep learning on clear display. Spanning the field and engaging with the controversies stirring scholarly waters on both sides of the Atlantic, Immigration, Integration and Mobility both reviews and sets the agendas for migration researchers. A volume that students and scholars will ponder and savour.' Roger Waldinger, Distinguished Professor, Sociology Department, University of California, Los Angeles 'Adrian Favell is not only the sharpest critic of European migration studies but also a pioneer who takes transnationalism and transdisciplinarity seriously in his own work. The ten essays in this book are a 'best of' selection representative of Favell's interventions... A critical mirror for a booming research field still struggling to understand its topic... Indispensable reading.' Rainer Baubock, Professor of Social and Political Theory, European University Institute, Florence 'This book takes us through several decades of migration debates, while remembering that at the heart of questions of migration are issues of differences in wealth, power, opportunity and futures... Provides much-needed critical perspectives on mainstream migration scholarship that has consistently failed to shed the blinkers of methodological nationalism.' Nina Glick Schiller, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology, University of Manchester 'Adrian Favell is a maverick. His work is always interesting, pushing the boundaries of 'normal' social science and expanding our knowledge of human mobility in all its dimensions... A collection of his most provocative essays, sure to top the reading list of every serious scholar of migration.' James F Hollifield, Professor of Political Science, Southern Methodist University, Dallas

Download or read book Skilled Immigration in Developed Economies written by Daniel Lee Crown and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The migration of highly skilled workers has risen substantially in recent decades. However, there is still considerable debate among policymakers regarding the impact of skilled migrants on domestic economies. The three essays in this dissertation seek to fill this gap by examining the impact of skilled immigration policies on the productivity of foreign-born doctorates, the impact of skilled migrants on the labor market opportunities for native workers, and the contribution of skilled migrants to regional innovation.

Download or read book Three Essays on the Labor market Characteristics of Immigrants written by Alan Michael Barrett and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Immigration Integration and Mobility written by Adrian Favell and published by ECPR Press. This book was released on 2015-05-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of Adrian Favell's innovative and agenda-setting essays which, since the late 1990s, have charted the emergence of new migration patterns and politics in Europe. Tackling in turn issues of multiculturalism, immigrant integration, free movement, high skilled mobilities, new East-West migrations and regional integration, the collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the dynamic field of international migration studies. At the same time, it poses a sharp challenge to current complacencies, challenging researchers to escape methodological nationalism and the unreflective reproduction of concepts and assumptions in the field, as well as embracing new methodologies and theoretical resources. Moving fluidly across intellectual boundaries as much as national borders, Favell points the way forward to new thinking in this burgeoning and rapidly evolving interdisciplinary field.