This thesis constists of three papers dealing with labour mobility. In paper [I], I study the effects of job change for wage growth. Job change is assumed to influence wage growth and productivity for both job movers and job stayers. I find that returns on work experience are higher for job...

In this study the 2004 labor market attainment of all immigrants of working age from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland on the Swedish labor market is investigated. The analysis is conducted in three steps. Step one investigates labor force participation at the time of observation by...

Does the nationality of migrants arriving in any particular territory make a difference for long-term economic development? Have Irish, German or Italian settlers arriving in the US at the turn of the 20th century left an institutional trace which determines economic development differences to...

Approximate populations of non-European origin in Europe are 3 - 4% of the total population. That is, people of many cultural backgrounds come to live together in a diverse society forming cultural groups that are not equal in power (numerical, economic, or political). Thus in both popular and...

We study the impact of migration to the European Union on the volume of international trade in EU. We focus on Southern Mediterranean (such as Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey) and Eastern Europe (such as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chech...

After the price liberalization in 1991, the Russian economy was faced with a jump of costs of transportation in real terms. New Economic Geography (NEG) gives answers to questions that are related to changes in transport costs. However, the outcomes of NEG models are very sensitive with respect...

Putnam (1995)'s seminal work was one of the first to describe the decline of social capital in the US after the 1960s, a period that saw a large increase in the flow of immigrants into the US. Using the Volunteer Supplement of the September Sample of the Current Population Survey (CPS) between...

This paper advances in the literature on the migration of college students, which is not very large in Brazil evaluating in to what extent does the uprising in the offer of undergraduate courses in a certain municipality affect the migratory net balance (over the municipality young population)....

We employ the German social security register data to analyze the development of wage inequality among foreigners in Germany. The data show a sharp increase of wage inequality which exceeds the size observed for natives. The decomposition methods proposed by DiNardo et al. (1996) are employed to...

The main objective of this paper is to understand the effects of regional migration of households over city-size distribution, urban growth and real estate prices. The paper aims to study regional migration of elderly households, mainly those over 50, in France during the last 20 years, by...