It is generally accepted that migration will lead to an increase in income. However the question is how will income be distributed across individuals in society? If migrants have lower education levels, when compared to current urban workers, then the in ow of migrants will increase the skill...

Regional labor markets are characterized by huge disparities of unemployment rates. Models of the New Economic Geography explain how disparities of regional goods markets endogenously arise but usually assume full employment. This paper discusses regional unemployment disparities by introducing...

The present study analyses (i) the role of labour migration in efforts to overcome labour shortages; (ii) the variety of instruments used to identify and monitory labour shortages at EU and national level (such as employer surveys, forecasts and qualitative studies), and (iii) the extent to...

Zusammenfassung Aktuell ist zu beobachten, dass deutsche Familien für die Verrichtung häuslicher Pflegearbeit zunehmend auf Pflegekräfte aus Osteuropa zurückgreifen. Aufgrund der schwachen Regulierung und des Charakters der Arbeit sind die Pflegekräfte darauf verwiesen, ihre Arbeits- und...