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Workers without Borders? Culture, Migration and the Political Limits to Globalization

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - CESifo - 2010

shortage in the economy. We show that countries that are poor at cultural assimilation are better positioned to take advantage … equilibria: some countries have mostly temporary migration programs and see a low degree of cultural assimilation by the migrants …, while other countries rely more on permanent migrants and see much more assimilation. …

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Labour Mobility and the Portability of Social Rights in the EU

d'Addio, Anna Cristina; Cavalleri, Maria Chiara - CESifo - 2013

The paper first discusses the main sources of concern for people in the perspective of professional mobility abroad as they result from the analysis of the Eurobarometer survey, wave 75.1 of 2011. Second, it tests whether portability of social security within Europe is a determinant of intra-EU...

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not...

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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - CESifo - 2012

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants’ inter-ethnic contact networks and...

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Managing Migration through Conflicting Policies: an Option-theory Perspective

Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - CESifo - 2009

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), trying to limit the immigrants’ stock. On the other hand, there is an...

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Outsourcing and Optimal Nonlinear Taxation: A Note

Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2008

This paper addresses outsourcing in the two-type optimal income tax model. If the government is able to control outsourcing via a direct tax instrument, outsourcing will not affect the marginal income tax structure. In the absence of a direct tax instrument, and under the plausible assumption...

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How Equal Are Educational Opportunities? Family Background and Student Achievement in Europe and the United States

Woessmann, Ludger - CESifo - 2004

This paper estimates the effects of family-background characteristics on student performance in the US and 17 Western European school systems. Family background has strong effects both in Europe and the United States, remarkably similar in size. France and Flemish Belgium achieve the most...

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The Effect of Temporary Migration Experience on Occupational Mobility in Estonia

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - CESifo - 2013

The literature on return migration includes several studies on the impact of foreign work experience on the returnees’ earnings or their decision to become self-employed; however in this paper we analyze the less studied effect on occupational mobility, i.e. how the job in home country after...

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Is Recipiency of Disability Pension Hereditary?

Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell - CESifo - 2012

This paper addresses whether children’s exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability of receiving such benefits themselves. Most OECD countries experience an increasing proportion of the working-age population receiving permanent disability benefits. Using...

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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - CESifo - 2013

This paper studies unemployed workers’ decisions to change occupations, and their impact on fluctuations in aggregate unemployment and its underlying duration distribution. We develop an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model with heterogenous labor markets. In...

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