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Unemployment benefits, risk aversion, and migration incentives

Heitmueller, Axel - 2002

With reference to the EU enlargement, a framework is derived which allows the study of the effect of unemployment … for South-North migration within the EU are rather ambiguous. …

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Refugees' and irregular migrants' self-selection into Europe: who migrates where?

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019

We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and...

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B for Brexit : a survey of the economics academic literature

Campos, Nauro - 2019

. The two building blocks to understand Brexit are the economic history of the UK-EU relationship and the literature on the … the UK benefited from EU integration (trade, migration and FDI). Next it surveys the short-run effects of the vote and …

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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 in the Western Balkans. Using data from the Gallup Balkan Monitor …

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Local-level immigration and life satisfaction : the EU enlargement experience in England and Wales

Ivlevs, Artjoms; Veliziotis, Michail - 2015

The 2004 European Union enlargement resulted in an unprecedented wave of 1.5 million workers relocating from Eastern Europe to the UK. We study how this migrant inflow affected life satisfaction of native residents in England and Wales. Combining the British Household Panel Survey with the Local...

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Macroeconomic determinants of international migration to the UK

Forte, Giuseppe; Portes, Jonathan - 2017

This paper examines the determinants of long-term international migration to the UK; we explore the extent to which migration is driven by macroeconomic variables (GDP per capita, unemployment rate) as well as law and policy (the existence of "free movement" rights for EEA nationals). We find a...

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On the potential interaction between labour market institutions and immigration policies

Cigagna, Claudia; Sulis, Giovanni - 2015

Using data on migration flows for a sample of 15 OECD countries over the period 1980-2006, we analyse the effect of unemployment and labour institutions such as employment protection legislation, coverage of unemployment benefits, minimum wages, union power and tax wedge on migration flows. We...

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Do processing times affect the distribution of asylum seekers across Europe?

Bertoli, Simone; Brücker, Herbert; Fernández-Huertas … - 2020

We propose a new methodology to estimate empirically the input price-induced technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth in China. Our primary goal is to test Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis by examining whether technical change in China has been induced by sharp increase in...

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Determinants and dynamics of forced migration to Europe : evidence from a 3-D model of flows and stocks

Brück, Tilman; Dunker, Kai M.; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; … - 2018

Violent conflict is a well-recognised driver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull factors that might also cause irregular movements. In turn, the decision to leave and of where to go are rarely considered separately. This is in contrast to literature on regular...

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Immigration and crime : new empirical evidence from European victimization data

Nunziata, Luca - 2014

We exploit the increase in immigration flows into western European countries that took place in the 2000s to assess whether immigration affects crime victimization and the perception of criminality among European natives. Using data from the European Social Survey, the Labour Force Survey and...

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