Should we think of immigration as an exogenous shock to labor supply in the receiving economy? The time series of the share of migrant labor is `Granger caused' by that of total hours worked and the average real wage in the UK economy. This suggests that immigration is, in part, determined by...

The focus of this paper is the labour practices that are identified with Japanese management style and their functioning in Australian subsidiaries of Japanese MNEs. The context of their functioning is the changes in labour and management relations in Australia. The data used in this paper was...

Are occupations that are well diversified across sectors less volatile, and less susceptible to external shocks? Most external shocks (e.g. manufacturing offshoring, oil shocks) impact the labor market along sectoral lines, i.e. they impact product and output markets; consequently, they affect...

Are occupations that are well diversified across sectors less volatile and less susceptible to external shocks? Most external shocks, like manufacturing offshoring and oil shocks, impact the labor market along sectoral lines, i.e. they impact product and output markets; consequently, they affect...

During the last 50 years with unprecedented population growth and urbanization, economic development, particularly in developing countries failed to generate adequate employment and income opportunities in the modern sector, compelling the surplus labour force to generate its own means of...

To raise employment and output growth in Europe, the leading multilateral economic institutions (EU Commission, IMF, OECD) routinely recommend ‘structural reforms’ of product and labor markets that increase competition and employment flexibility. Existing model-based analyses of those...

Should immigration be regarded as an exogenous shock? If so, what is its effect on native wages? Might any effect differ across different sectors of the economy? In this paper we answer these questions by applying macroeconomic time series methods to a time series of UK labor market variables...

A remarkable fact of the mushrooming remittances market is the absence of commercial banks as relevant players. Furthermore, remittances have been identified as a potential catalyst for the financial deepening of receiving countries through higher access to banking services by migrants'...

El año 2020 se caracterizó por unas dinámicas de migración neta en España que desembocaron en un aumento de la población rural en detrimento de la población urbana, rompiendo la tendencia secular hacia una mayor urbanización vigente desde mediados del siglo pasado. De acuerdo con los...

El año 2020 se caracterizó por unas dinámicas de migración neta en España que desembocaron en un aumento de la población rural en detrimento de la población urbana, rompiendo la tendencia secular hacia una mayor urbanización vigente desde mediados del siglo pasado. De acuerdo con los...