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Spain: From massive immigration to vast emigration?

Izquierdo, Mario; Jimeno, Juan F.; Lacuesta, Aitor - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 10, pp. 1-20

total population. The rapid increase in unemployment associated with the Great Recession and the subsequent European debt … outflows. In this paper, we take on three tasks. First, we show that sensitivity of migration flows to unemployment is similar … emigration rates growing, thus counterbalancing the effects of outflows due to the recent fall in the unemployment rate. …

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International migration desires related to subjective well-being

Cai, Ruohong; Esipova, Neli; Oppenheimer, Michael; … - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-20

Previous research on the determinants of international migration has largely focused on objective factors, such as income. We instead use subjective well-being (SWB) to explain international migration desires, an expressed willingness to migrate. We find that individuals with higher SWB have...

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The effects of international migration on the well-being of native populations in Europe

Betz, William; Simpson, Nicole B. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

Very little is understood about how immigrants affect the happiness, or subjective well-being of natives. We use the European Social Survey to analyze the effects of aggregate immigration flows on the subjective well-being of native-born populations in a panel of 26 countries between 2002 and...

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Russian migrants to Russia: Assimilation and local labor market effects

Lazareva, Olga - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-25

As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, five million Russian and Russian-speaking people repatriated to Russia during 1990 - 2002. I use this natural experiment to study labor market assimilation of migrants and their effect on the employment and wages of the local population. I show...

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Skilled migration and the transfer of institutional norms

Beine, Michel; Sekkat, Khalid - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-19

We examine two impacts of international emigration on the evolution of the institutions in the origin countries. The first impact concerns the influence of emigration per se (i.e. people who left the country can voice more or less from abroad). The second impact relates to the transfer of the...

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The effects of active labour market policies for immigrants receiving social assistance in Denmark

Heinesen, Eskil; Husted, Leif; Rosholm, Michael - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-22

other programmes. Effects are larger if programmes begin after six months of unemployment. Implications of our estimates are …

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Labour mobility and labour market adjustment in the EU

Arpaia, Alfonso; Kiss, Aron; Palvolgyi, Balazs; … - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 21, pp. 1-21

This paper assesses the role of labour mobility in the adjustment to asymmetric economic shocks in the EU. After presenting a series of stylised facts of mobility in the EU, it assesses mobility as a channel of economic adjustment by means of a vector autoregression (VAR) analysis in the vein of...

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What active labour market programmes work for immigrants in Europe? A meta-analysis of the evaluation literature

Butschek, Sebastian; Walter, Thomas - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-18

unemployment: training, job search assistance, wage subsidies and subsidised public sector employment. We find that only wage …

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Employment chances of immigrants and their children in Germany: Does sense of personal control matter?

Thum-Thysen, Anna - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 16, pp. 1-25

Labour market integration is a social process suggesting that personality traits are relevant. This paper explores whether immigrants with a higher belief in their ability to control outcomes tend to be more likely to be employed. This trait is known in psychology as the locus of control (LOC)....

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