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Ethnische Vielfalt und Arbeitsmarkterfolg
Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
Das ökonomische Potenzial ethnischer und kultureller Vielfalt wird häufig verkannt. Die Ergebnisse neuerer Studien, die in diesem Beitrag zusammengefasst werden, zeigen jedoch, dass sich weiche Faktoren wie etwa Einstellungen, Wahrnehmungen und Identitäten, hier insbesondere ethnische...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331500
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Labor market integration of migrants: Hidden costs and benefits in two-tier welfare states
König, Jan; Skupnik, Christoph - 2012
We apply a monopoly trade union model and analyze employment, wage and budgetary effects of (i) an inflow of migrant workers and (ii) an increase in the labor market participation rate of migrants. Per assumption, natives and migrants solely differ with respect to the level of benefit claims in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010308294
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532676
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Migration, Risk Attitudes, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - 2013
Do more risk loving migrants opt for self-employment? This is a question especially relevant for policy makers designing selective immigration policies in countries of destination. In order to provide a rigorous answer to it, we use a novel vignette-adjusted measure of risk preferences in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532802
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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265004
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Migration in an enlarged EU: a challenging solution?
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as … analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268969
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Labor mobility and the integration of European labor markets
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
to mobility is in promoting the integration of international workers in the European migration process, which can be … strengthened through circular migration. The European blue card initiative and the opening of labor markets to foreign graduates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269200
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Ethnicity, job search and labor market reintegration of the unemployed
Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Rinne, Ulf; … - 2009
in Germany. Our data include a large number of migration variables, allowing us to adapt a recently developed concept of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269464
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Migration in an enlarged EU: a challenging solution?
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as … analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271082
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Labor mobility and the integration of European labor markets
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
to mobility is in promoting the integration of international workers in the European migration process, which can be … strengthened through circular migration. The European blue card initiative and the opening of labor markets to foreign graduates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271088