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migration improves the allocation of human capital in the EU and contend that the level of permanent‐type labour mobility is … the posting flows more generally. One of the reasons for this is the fact that data on posting are still scarce. This … article aims to fill this gap by exploring unique posting data for Belgium. Based on these data we argue that while the free …
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quantify three distinct barriers that prevent East Germans from migrating west to obtain a higher wage: migration costs …
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This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
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, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of …
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The study assesses the current and future migration potential to Austria (Vienna) from the Central and Eastern European … migration flows will shift significantly with regard to the Austrian provinces. …
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We study the effect of local exposure to populism on net population movements by citizenship status, gender, age and education level in the context of Italian municipalities. We present two research designs to estimate the causal effect of populist attitudes and politics. Initially, we use a...
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This report summarizes the characteristics of migration in the People's Republic of China (PRC) after its reforms and … opening up. Rapid urbanization in the PRC has resulted from recent decades of intense rural-urban migration. The scale of … migration increased rapidly and long-term migration is the main characteristic. The population characteristics of migration are …
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Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...
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benefits on the migration decision. While benefits simply increase the expected gain for risk neutral individuals, they work as … an insurance device for risk averse migrants; the results for the two groups might differ. Thus, the migration decision … model suggests increased migration incentives independent of taste and a positive selection of risk neutral individuals …
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Many unaccompanied children have applied for asylum during the last few years, especially in 2015. These children face special challenges and risk being exploited due to their age and legal status. In this paper we survey research and otherwise documented experiences regarding this group of...
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