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differentials as well as differences in employment opportunities are the central forces which drive East-West migration after …
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able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …
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able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …
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The migration of labour can affect economies in several ways. This paper focuses on two of the economic impacts of … migration in the context of the recent Welsh experience. Firstly, since migration is a key aspect of labour market flexibility … the most deprived parts of Wales have the lowest levels of migration and that both in and outmigration rates are …
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We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or nonworking for every individual in our sample and selection into self-employment or wageearning jobs for workers only....
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In January 2001 the Hungarian government increased the minimum wage from Ft 25,500 to Ft 40,000. One year later the wage floor rose further to Ft 50,000. The paper looks at the short-run impact of the first hike on small-firm employment and flows between employment and unemployment. It finds...
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How is migration related to informal activities? They may be complementary since new migrants may have difficulty … finding employment in formal work, so many of them end up informally employed. Alternatively, migration and informality may be … substitutes since migrants' incomes in their new locations and income earned in the home informal economy (without migration) are …
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How is migration related to informal activities? They may be complementary since new migrants may have difficulty … finding employment in formal work, so many of them end up informally employed. Alternatively, migration and informality may be … substitutes since migrants' incomes in their new locations and income earned in the home informal economy (without migration) are …
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labour market areas, the paper provides some illustrative labour market statistics for these zones. Migration between labour … administrative classification for studying migration at a subnational level. …
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-induced internal migration on the probability for non-migrants living in the destination regions to be employed. Our results reveal a … percentage points increase in the net in-migration rate in these areas decreases the probability of being employed of non …
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