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Eastern European immigrants in the UK before and after the 2004 European enlargement

Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012 - This version: 31 January 2012

The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries to the EU has generated concerns about the influx of low-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However, there is lack of recent systematic evidence on the level of...

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Refugees' self-selection into Europe : who migrates where?

Aksoy, Cevat Giray; Poutvaara, Panu - 2019

About 1.4 million refugees and irregular migrants arrived in Europe in 2015 and 2016. We model how refugees and irregular migrants are self-selected. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first large-scale evidence on...

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The immigrant wage gap in Germany : are East Europeans worse off?

Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2010

This study compares the outcomes of male foreign workers from different East and West European countries who entered the German labour market between 1995 and 2000, with those of male German workers. We find that the immigrant-native wage gap differs significantly between nationalities: the...

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What are Europeans' views on migrant integration? : an in-depth analysis of 2017 Special Eurobarometer "Integration of immigrants in the European Union"

Dražanová, Lenka; Liebig, Thomas; Migali, Silvia; … - 2020

This paper provides an in-depth description of public opinion about immigrants’ integration in European countries, as captured in the 2017 Special Eurobarometer on this topic. It highlights a near consensus among European respondents on the meaning of integration, but more variation across...

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Firm-specific pay premiums and the gender wage gap in 21 European countries

Hennig, Jan-Luca; Stadler, Balazs - 2021

We study how firm premia influence the gender wage gap for 21 European countries over 12 years. We use a quadrennial … harmonized matched employer-employee data set to estimate gender-specific firm premia. Subsequently, we decompose the firm … the subgroups by age and gender reveals heterogeneity in the development of the components. We pay particular attention to …

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The EU structural funds as a means to hamper migration

Schmidt, Peter - 2012

Comparing the economic development and current situation of the internal markets of the U.S. and the EU, two things are noticeable. On the one hand, the EU is conducting massive regional policy programmes (notably the Structural Funds) to foster economic cohesion among the 27 nations belonging...

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Internal migration and EU regional policy transfer payments : a panel data analysis for 28 EU member countries

Schmidt, Peter - 2016

This paper analyses the effects of EU regional policy transfer payments on net migration flows among the EU-28 countries. The hypothesis is tested that EU transfer payments do hamper internal migration across the EU. On the one hand, this is done by reestimating the results found by Egger,...

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A search and matching approach to business-cycle migration in the euro area

Clemens, Marius; Hart, Janine - 2019

Recently migration patterns in the euro area changed markedly in response to increasing unemployment disparities. This reinforced the interest in labor mobility as stabilization tool against the background of heterogeneous labor market conditions. In a data set of 55 bilateral migration...

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Cultural differences and institutional integration

Guiso, Luigi; Herrera, Helios; Morelli, Massimo - In: Journal of international economics 99 (2016), pp. 97-113

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Social connections and remittance flows : an exploratory analysis of Facebook data

Kalantaryan, Sona; McMahon, Simon; Spyratos, Spyridon; … - Europäische Kommission / Gemeinsame Forschungsstelle - 2022

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