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better information on migration and for wage premiums and discounts to be estimated across sectors and countries. The second … migration policies. Whilst it is possible to share the burdens of ageing and dependency through migration, this will not happen … under present arrangements. Migration cannot continue to be treated differently to trade and finance. A framework needs to …
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to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …
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An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...
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This research extends simple two-sector models in order to inquire the impact of the extent of coverage or enforcement of minimum wage legislation in one of the sectors on the equilibrium outcome. Two versions of institutional wage avoidance are presented. They may be seen as representing...
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This research extends simple two-sector models in order to inquire the impact of the extent of coverage or enforcement of minimum wage legislation in one of the sectors on the equilibrium outcome. Two versions of institutional wage avoidance are presented. They may be seen as representing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524877
estimate the migration potential after EU enlargement, econometric-based simulation models are used for the four most heavily …
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unemployment, and interregional labour migration. The RHOMOLO model is parameterised by estimating the key structural parameters … channels of adjustment to macro-economic and policy shocks in the EU. In contrast, labour migration plays a secondary role in …
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Does migration serve as an effective channel of regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks in transition economies? If … so, one should find a strong relationship between regional unemployment and average wages on the one hand, and migration … flows on the other. Yet, the evidence from transition economies indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing inter …
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We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and … stayers. Policy simulations are run in order to gauge the magnitude of these migration effects. Based on estimated …
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We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic … migrants in absence of migration to evaluate the effect of regional migration when the effect of migration is purely … compositional (i.e., when wages are treated as exogenous). We find that regional migration increases average wages by 1.8% and …
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