Unemployment rates have been persistently high, particularly for young labour market entrants. Rising access to education has increased the supply of high-skilled labour, but private sector mainly created jobs in low-skill intensive and low-productivity activities, leading high unemployment among tertiary graduates women. Moreover, professional training systems operate isolation from needs do n...

Abstract Using a broad panel of advanced economies, we document that increases in GDP per capita are associated with systematic shift the composition value added to sectors intensive high-skill labour, process label as skill-biased structural change. It follows further development these economies leads an increase relative demand for skilled labour. We develop quantitative two-sector model this...

Abstract This article uses Swedish register data to study the labour market experiences of radical right-wing candidates standing in local elections. We look at different measures economic insecurity (labour participation trajectories, experience unemployment social networks and relative growth number jobs for foreign-born workers vis-a-vis natives) examine whether they are predictors running S...

a r t i c l e i n f o JEL classification: F43 J31 O31 O33 Keywords: Technological knowledge International trade Human capital Wage inequality By connecting the North–South diffusion and the bias of non-scale technological knowledge and by considering endogenous human capital, we relate the technological-knowledge diffusion with levels, inter-country gaps, growth rates, wage-inequality paths and...

Purpose Despite immigrant-receiving countries' need for skilled professionals to meet labour demands, research suggests that many migrants undergo deskilling, downward career mobility, underemployment, unemployment and talent waste, finding themselves in low-skilled occupations are not commensurate their education experience. Skilled immigrant women face additional gendered disadvantages, inclu...

Skilled migration is an important strategy in developed economies seeking to address skills shortages and population ageing. Research on the labour market outcomes of skilled migrants tends focus employers' devaluation without considering role immigration policy process. Moreover, there little understanding whether efforts meet employer demands for local qualifications improve outcomes. Drawing...

This paper evaluates the impact of migration on labour market outcomes non-migrant workers in India using unit-level data from ‘Employment Unemployment and Migration Survey’ (NSSO 64th Round, 2007–2008). After correcting for endogeneity bias an instrument variable approach, overall results study suggest that inflow migrant increases wages but does not affect their employment. Disaggregating ana...

We study in this paper the interactions between migration rates and the level of labour standards. We use an augmented version of the Grogger and Hanson (2008) model, adding the level of working conditions into the specification. Our hypothesis is that the differential of working conditions may be a complementary determinant of migration. In a first time, we test the influence of labour standar...

Abstract Humanitarian migration to Australia has reached new levels, accompanied by unprecedented complexity and diversity. Little is known about labour market integration for these newcomers, nor how well their skills match those required or relevant employment. Here we analyse force engagement skill alignment are influenced status, including scheme, region of birthplace, applicant year arriva...