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Interacting product and labor market regulation and the impact of immigration on native wages

Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2014

Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … labor market: one segment without product and labor market regulation, to which standard immigration models best apply, one … segment in which product and labor market regulation interact, and one segment covering intermediate groups of workers. We …

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Assessing job flows across countries : the role of industry, firm size and regulations

Haltiwanger, John C. (contributor); … - 2006

This paper reviews the process of job creation and destruction across a sample of 16 industrial and emerging economies over the past decade. It exploits a harmonized firm-level data-set drawn from business registers and enterprise census data. The paper assesses the importance of technological...

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Employer sanctions: a policy with a pitfall?

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - 2021

This chapter investigates the impact of the imposition of sanctions for employing illegal migrants on the welfare of native laborers. In response to such sanctions, managers in a firm may be reassigned from the supervision of production to the verification of the legality of the firm's labor...

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On the economics and politics of refugee migration

Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; … - 2016

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After first reviewing the institutional framework laid out by the Geneva Convention for Refugees, we demonstrate that, despite numerous attempts at developing a common European asylum...

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Social security and taxation of labour subject to subsidiarity and freedom of movement

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2002

of work. Second, the employment-based regulation of state competencies cannot be applied to non-active persons. The …

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Open borders, transport links and local labor markets

Åslund, Olof; Engdahl, Mattias - 2016

We study the labor market impact of opening borders to low wage countries. The analysis exploits time and regional variation provided by the 2004 EU enlargement in combination with transport links to Sweden from the new member states. The results suggest an adverse impact on earnings of present...

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Does the implementation of the Schengen agreement boost cross-border commuting? : evidence from Switzerland

Parenti, Angela; Tealdi, Cristina - 2019

In this paper we study the effects of Switzerland implementing the Schengen agreement on cross-border commuting from regions of neighbouring countries. As vehicles are allowed to cross borders without stopping and residents in border areas are granted freedom to cross borders away from fixed...

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To Europe or not to Europe? : migration and public support for joining the European Union in the Western Balkans

Ivlevs, Artjoms; King, Roswitha Maria - 2019

For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in prospective member states. We explore the relationship between migration and support for EU accession...

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Eastern enlargement and EU-labour markets : perceptions, challenges and opportunities

Boeri, Tito; Brücker, Herbert - 2001

This paper summarises the key findings of a recent study on the impact of Eastern Enlargement of the European Union (EU) on labour markets in the current Member States. The study focuses on three main channels, along which enlargement may affect labour markets in the EU, namely i) trade, ii)...

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The rise of the free movements : how posting shapes a hybrid single European labour market

Mussche, Ninke; Corluy, Vincent; Marx, Ive - 2016

Intra‐EU mobility has been the subject of debate from its very inception. Some scholars argue that intra‐EU labour migration improves the allocation of human capital in the EU and contend that the level of permanent‐type labour mobility is still too low to talk of a single European labour...

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