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shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …
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size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions. For this purpose we construct a panel of …'s restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a function of regional …
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To examine the impact of migrants on the average firm productivity, wages and welfare we construct a general … show that a higher migrant share may explain a higher average productivity in a region. Though the relative wages of …
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The aim of this paper is to outline differences in the socio-demographic and employment characteristics of Estonian people who have worked in a neighbouring country – Finland, Sweden, Latvia or Russia. The empirical part of this paper relies on data from CV Keskus – an online employment...
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Using a simple theoretical model, we show that the level of migration costs relative to wealth determines the form of the relation between income and migration intentions, which can be monotonically decreasing, increasing, or inverse U-shaped. Using unique individual level data, covering three...
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Do information flows matter for remittance behavior? We design and implement a randomized control trial to quantitatively assess the role of communication between migrants and their contacts abroad on the extent and value of remittance flows. In the experiment, a random sample of 1,500 migrants...
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not impose restrictions to immigration from Eastern Europe. Did the elimination of barrier to immigration have an impact … between EU8 immigrants arrived before and after the enlargement. The elimination of barriers to immigration seems to have …
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-à-vis unskilled immigration. Still, important systematic differences exist: welfare state considerations and network effects have an … impact on the support for immigration liberalization, but not for trade; Democratic lawmakers are systematically more likely …
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designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a …
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Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the literature, the question of identifying this relationship empirically has only begun to be explored. Using a unique representative survey of 1500 immigrants in the Greater Dublin...
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