Skill based immigrant selection and labor market outcomes by visa category

Arbeitspapier

Attracting skilled immigrants is emerging as an important policy goal for immigrant receiving countries. This article first discusses the economic rationale for immigrant selection. Selection mechanisms of receiving countries are reviewed in the context of deteriorating labor market outcomes for immigrants across destination countries which fuels the debate on selection. Next, the variation in immigrant characteristics across countries and visa types is discussed. The article then reviews the evidence on labor market outcomes of immigrants by visa category that portrays the experiences of countries with different selection mechanisms and underlines the challenges for realizing aimed benefits of a skill based immigrant selection policy.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6433

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy
• Subject: immigration ; selection ; immigration policy ; visa category ; point system ; Migrationspolitik ; Einwanderungsrecht ; Qualifikation ; Hochqualifizierte Arbeitskräfte ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Migranten ; Erwerbsverlauf ; Welt

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Aydemir, Abdurrahman
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2012

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58938
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201207125660
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:43 AM CET