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Labor Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...

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Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union

Kahanec, Martin - 2012

The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states mainly from Central Eastern Europe. This study summarizes and comparatively evaluates what we know about mobility in an enlarged Europe to date. The pre-enlargement fears of...

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Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries Country Study : Italy

Marchetti, Sabrina - 2013

Migrants from the Eastern Partnership Countries: Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan has increased in the last ten years. Two different patterns are detected among the most important groups: Ukrainian and Moldovan. The first is mainly composed by women with a temporary...

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How Immigration Grease is Affected by Economic, Institutional and Policy Contexts : Evidence from EU Labor Markets

Guzi, Martin - 2015

Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to test this hypothesis across various...

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Does the Implementation of the Schengen Agreement Boost Cross-Border Commuting? Evidence from Switzerland

Parenti, Angela - 2019

In this paper we study the effects of Switzerland implementing the Schengen agreement on cross-border commuting from … granted freedom to cross borders away from fixed checkpoints, commuting costs are severely reduced. Using data from the … European Labour Force Survey, we estimate that the individual probability to cross-border commute to Switzerland in response to …

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Building Bridges and Widening Gaps : Wage Gains and Equity Concerns of Labor Market Expansions

Bütikofer, Aline - 2020

cross-country commuting among Swedish residents. This effect is driven both by extensive and intensive margin employment …

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High Relocation Costs in Search-Matching Models : Theory and Application to Spatial Mismatch

Zenou, Yves - 2021

and commuting costs because firms need to compensate the transportation cost difference between the employed and …

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Endogenous Job Destruction and Job Matching in Cities

Zenou, Yves - 2021

. They reside in a city and commuting to the job center involves both pecuniary and time costs. Thus, workers with high wages … are willing to live closer to jobs to save on time commuting costs. We show that, in equilibrium, there is a one … commuting costs and land rent create additional frictions in the labor market …

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Portability of Pension, Health, and Other Social Benefits : Facts, Concepts, Issues

Holzmann, Robert - 2011

Portability of social benefits across professions and countries is an increasing concern for individuals and policy makers. Lacking or incomplete transfers of acquired social rights are feared to negatively impact individual labor market decisions as well as capacity to address social risks with...

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Labor Disputes and Labor Flows

Fraisse, Henri - 2011

About one in four workers challenges her dismissal in front of a labor court in France. Using a data set of individual labor disputes brought to French courts over the years 1996 to 2003, we examine the impact of labor court activity on labor market flows. First, we present a simple theoretical...

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