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Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare states. Institutions such as collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010739951
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Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK
Jahn, Elke Jutta; Upward, Richard; Brücker, Herbert - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012
We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare states. Institutions such as collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010555686
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L'immigration : quels effets économiques ?
Jayet, Hubert; Ragot, Lionel; Rajaonarison, Dominique - In: Revue d'économie politique 111 (2001) 4, pp. 565-596
migration flows needed to stabilize support ratios are very high. The behavior of international labor markets will completely …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011187194
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Soaring Minds: The Flight of Israel’s Economists
Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Despite their small number, Israeli economists have become an important fixture in the international academic scene. In recent years, this phenomenon has been characterized by an additional attribute: the number of Israelis who have chosen to leave the country’s universities - or not to return...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497751
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Authoritarianism and labor market : preference of labor policies in the Arab Gulf countries
Matsuo, Masaki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
Migrant and labor issues are a primary concern in the Arab Gulf countries. With focus on the economic and political conditions that influence actors' decisions when framing labor policies, this study analyzes how preferences of such policies are formed and explains why the governments of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011234993
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Demographics, Labor Mobility, and Productivity
Wilson, E. J.; Jayanthakumaran, K.; Verma, R. - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2012
it is possible to share the burdens of ageing and dependency through migration, this will not happen under present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840218
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Labor market integration and migration: impacts on skill formation and the wage structure
BEHRENS, Kristian; SATO, Yasuhiro - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2006
We analyze the impacts of labor market integration and migration on skill formation, wage structures, and per capita … integration, by allowing for migration in response to wage differentials, changes the wage structures and, therefore, the … evidence concerning international migration, the widening international income dispersion, the narrowing national income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005065318
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Brain Drained: A Tale of Two Countries
Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper provides a comparative examination of how public universities in two countries, the United States and Israel, have evolved over the past few decades - and how differences between the two have culminated in a rate of academic brain drain from the latter to the former that is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656177
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762301
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123900