Uneven Hedging of Economic Risks for a Skilled Workforce: Are Immigrants Disadvantaged?
| Autor: | Siri Warkentien, Lingxin Hao |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Labour economics
media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development Immigration 0506 political science Disadvantaged Test (assessment) Great recession Economic risk Spatial mobility 0502 economics and business Workforce 050602 political science & public administration Economics Survey data collection 050207 economics Demography media_common |
| Zdroj: | Population, Space and Place. 22:411-427 |
| ISSN: | 1544-8444 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/psp.1913 |
| Popis: | Skilled immigration to the United States has been multi-channeled via legislations on permanent and temporary visa programs. This paper argues that skilled immigrants were not disadvantaged during the Great Recession because of a new hedging mechanism, which starts with the federal legislations that admit skilled nonimmigrants, proceeds to vest authority in employers, who perform rigorous screening and selection of temporary workers for future permanency, and ends with greater protection of those selected. To test this mechanism, the paper examines skilled immigrants' spatial mobility out of the country and their domestic labor market outcomes. The paper presents evidence from analyzing repeated, nationally representative survey data of college graduates in the US using demographic techniques of intra-cohort and inter-cohort analyses. The major findings about the substantial cross-border mobility and high levels of labor force participation among at-entry temporary visa holders who later gained permanent residency provide strong evidence to support our proposed new hedging mechanism. |
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