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Micro and Macro Determinants of Health : Older Immigrants in Europe

Constant, Amelie F. - 2015

We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to natives. We utilize the unique Survey of Health Aging and Retirement (SHARE) and augmented it with macroeconomic information on the 22 home countries and 16 host countries. Using...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013030713

Immigration Following EU Eastern Enlargement

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Werding, Martin - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 2, pp. 40-47

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Immigrants and welfare programmes : exploring the interactions between immigrant characteristics, immigrant welfare dependence and welfare policy

Barrett, Alan (contributor); McCarthy, Yvonne (contributor) - 2008

The primary purpose of this paper is to provide a review of the papers within the economics literature that have examined the questions of immigrant welfare use and the responsiveness of immigrants to the incentives created by welfare systems. While our focus is largely on papers looking at the...

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Immigrant Welfare Receipt Across Europe

Barrett, Alan - 2011

The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a range of European countries. Using the European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions for...

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Immigrant Performance and Selective Immigration Policy : A European Perspective

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021

. Integrated labour and migration policies are needed. The employment chances of the low-skilled are limited. Whereas Europe could … benefit from a substantive immigration policy that imposes selection criteria that are more in line with economic needs, the … substantial immigration into the European Union follows largely non-economic motives. This paper discusses the economic rationale …

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Where Do the Brainy Italians Go?

Constant, Amelie F.; D'Agosto, Elena - 2008

This paper studies the major determinants that affect the country choice of the talented Italian scientists and researchers who have at least a bachelor's from Italy and live abroad. There are three alternative country choices: the US/Canada, the UK, and other EU countries. On average, the...

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Immigrants and Welfare Programmes : Exploring the Interactions between Immigrant Characteristics, Immigrant Welfare Dependence and Welfare Policy

Barrett, Alan; McCarthy, Yvonne - 2021

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The Immigrant Earnings Disadvantage Across the Earnings and Skills Distributions : The Case of Immigrants from the EU's New Member States in Ireland

Barrett, Alan; McGuinness, Seamus; O'Brien, Martin - 2021

As the movement of population from the New Member States (NMS) of the EU to the older members is a relatively new flow, it is important to build up our knowledge of who is moving within Europe and how they are performing in their destinations. In this paper, we analyse the earnings of immigrants...

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Where Do the Brainy Italians Go?

Constant, Amelie F.; D'Agosto, Elena - 2021

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325353

Immigration Following EU Eastern Enlargement

Sinn, Hans-Werner; Werding, Martin - In: CESifo Forum 2 (2001) 2, pp. 40-47

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005010162