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Title: Institutional Factors on Economic Integration of Highly Skilled Migrant Workers Into Host Countries' Labour Market; a Comparative Analysis of Selected OECD Countries
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Publication Year: 2015
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Abstract: The economic integration of highly skilled immigrants particularly their inferior labor market outcomes relative to natives is emerging as a serious policy challenge for both traditional and new receiving countries particularly in European context. To investigate the structural roots of variation and relative inferior outcomes of highly skilled immigrants across countries this research project takes institutional approach (macro level) which is not well documented yet. In this respect, three main influencing structural factors namely, skill-based selecting policies, skill regimes and labour market structure and regulation in host countries are deeply analyzed and their effects on labour market outcomes of highly skilled migrant workers in comparison with their native counter parts are considered. Accordingly, the institutional analysis of highly skilled immigrants' economic integration and the linkage between skill immigration systems and skill regimes are the main research contributions of this work which are carried out for the first time. In this project skill transferability is regarded as a main challenge towards either supply or demand-driven approach of skill-based selecting policies among host countries and skill specificity is also underlined as the linking chain between selecting policy and skill regime in host countries. The labour market outcome gap between native and migrant skilled workers is investigated through risk of being unemployed, job status and labour income as three main output variables. These dependent variables are modelled by two sets of micro sociodemographic (age, gender, level of education, country of birth and years since migration) and macro (migration regime, skill regime, labour market structure, EPL and GDP) independent/control variables. For empirical phase of this project, time series cross sectional (TSCN) hierarchical data of twenty main migrant receiving OECD countries are used. Twostage multilevel modelling is applied to do multivariate analysis which is well suited to dealing with the hierarchical structure of the data. Actually, this research project not only moves towards to expand few existing literature on institutional factors affecting highly skilled migrant workers incorporation process, but also empirically attempts to narrow the gap in migration comparatives studies between European and non-European contexts. Hence it has a various sets of research contributions and policy implementations
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Authors: Salavati, Bahram
Publisher: InGRID
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration, Other
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