The gravity of high-skilled migration policies
Combining unique annual bilateral high-skilled immigration labor flow data for 10 OECD destinations between 2000 and 2012, with new databases comprising both unilateral and bilateral policy instruments, we present the first judicious cross-country assessment of policies aimed to attract and select h...
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| description | Combining unique annual bilateral high-skilled immigration labor flow data for 10 OECD destinations between 2000 and 2012, with new databases comprising both unilateral and bilateral policy instruments, we present the first judicious cross-country assessment of policies aimed to attract and select high-skilled workers. Points-based systems are much more effective in attracting and selecting high-skilled migrants than requiring a job offer, labor market tests and shortage-lists. Offers of permanent residency, while attracting the highly skilled, overall reduce the human capital content of labor flows since they prove more attractive to non-high-skilled workers. Bilateral recognition of diploma and social security agreements foster greater flows of high-skilled workers and improve the skill selectivity of immigrant flows. Conversely, double taxation agreements deter high-skilled migrants, although they do not alter overall skill selectivity. Our results are robust to a variety of empirical specifications that account for destination-specific amenities, multilateral resistance to migration and the endogeneity of immigration policies. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:91fcf2ba-2d58-4f21-8a81-152eaef65cbc2022-03-26T23:22:26ZThe gravity of high-skilled migration policiesJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:91fcf2ba-2d58-4f21-8a81-152eaef65cbcSymplectic Elements at OxfordSpringer Verlag2017Czaika, MCombining unique annual bilateral high-skilled immigration labor flow data for 10 OECD destinations between 2000 and 2012, with new databases comprising both unilateral and bilateral policy instruments, we present the first judicious cross-country assessment of policies aimed to attract and select high-skilled workers. Points-based systems are much more effective in attracting and selecting high-skilled migrants than requiring a job offer, labor market tests and shortage-lists. Offers of permanent residency, while attracting the highly skilled, overall reduce the human capital content of labor flows since they prove more attractive to non-high-skilled workers. Bilateral recognition of diploma and social security agreements foster greater flows of high-skilled workers and improve the skill selectivity of immigrant flows. Conversely, double taxation agreements deter high-skilled migrants, although they do not alter overall skill selectivity. Our results are robust to a variety of empirical specifications that account for destination-specific amenities, multilateral resistance to migration and the endogeneity of immigration policies. |
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