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A transition from pay-as-you-go pension systems to more private funded systems is often suggested as a solution to finance pension systems threatened by ageing. This paper analyses alternative potential remedies linked to changes in labour market characteristics, within an international...
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provincial level via a common trend-common cycle analysis. Then a causality analysis is performed. It reveals that migration … the Flemish labor market affect migration flows. Only border provinces (Limburg and Flemish Brabant) appear to be …
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In a mobile labor market, a high emigration rate of high skilled workers is not necessarily a problem, if counterbalanced by a high immigration rate. However, some countries experience a net gain of high skilled while others a net loss. Corruption is part of the explanation, acting through two...
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In this paper we investigate the impact of global migration on the welfare of native workers in the OECD countries. We … develop a multi-country, general equilibrium model with trade and migration. Labor is assumed to be heterogeneous, whereas the … redistribution is also examined. The main result of this paper is the quantification of the welfare effects of migration for …
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economy. First, we combine data on effective and desired migration to identify the net pool of foreign talents (NPFT) of … benefit less than the US. In addition, liberalizing high-skilled migration decreases income per worker by 2.5 percent in …
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The paper investigates the welfare consequences of liberalizing migration and trade between the OECD countries. The key …), whereas the impact of reducing the barriers for migration in OECD is substantially more pronounced (+ 2,0% in real GDP … eliminating migration barriers provides positive outcomes for only a few destinations and increases the between and within …
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The pace of international skilled migration has accelerated during recent decades and it has attracted considerable … stylized facts on the magnitude and skill composition of migration and explores the main findings on brain drain. Then it …
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This paper studies the impact of low-skilled immigration on the host country’s education policy, which is formulated by the natives via voting and refers to both school funding sources and resources in the public funded schools. When the size of low-skilled immigrants is large, it is found...
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