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Admission policies and immigrant skills

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  • Xulia Gonz�lez
  • Daniel Miles-Touya

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It is often argued that stricter immigration policies have a positive selection effect on immigration from the perspective of the host country, as it makes migration less attractive for less-skilled individuals. However, there is relatively little evidence confirming this argument. The aim of this letter is to analyse how the change of the European immigration policy in 2002 and 2003 with regard to Colombia and Ecuador citizens affected the sorting of immigrants arriving to Spain. Our findings suggest that following the imposition of visa requirements for immigrants from Colombia and Ecuador, the proportion of the least-skilled emigrants diminished while the proportion of most-skilled immigrants to Spain from these two countries increased with respect to those migrating to the United States.

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  • Xulia Gonz�lez & Daniel Miles-Touya, 2014. "Admission policies and immigrant skills," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 21(17), pages 1189-1193, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:21:y:2014:i:17:p:1189-1193
    DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2014.916381
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    1. Ameed Saabneh & Rebbeca Tesfai, 2021. "Does Immigrant Selection Policy Matter? Labor Market Integration of Ethiopian Immigrants in Israel and the United States," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 40(5), pages 955-985, October.
    2. Klaus Nowotny, 2015. "Institutions and the Location Decisions of Highly Skilled Migrants to Europe. WWWforEurope Working Paper No. 78," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 57885, April.

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