Admission policies and immigrant skills

Xulia Gonz�lez and Daniel Miles-Touya
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Applied Economics Letters, 2014, vol. 21, issue 17, 1189-1193

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2014.916381

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