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This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We first show theoretically that the job-finding rate for the high-skilled varies depending on their search strategy: if they are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as...
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This paper examines the role of labor market frictions and moving costs in explaining the migration behavior of US … estimate a dynamic model of individual labor supply and migration decisions. The model incorporates a reduced-form search model … and allows for migration for non-market reasons. My estimates show that moving costs are substantial and that labor market …
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workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …
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, terrorism threats, migration crisis, populism, nationalism, and the Brexit are all elements covered by the public agenda and … aimeds at the phenomenon of migration of the Romanian labour force in the frame of the current socio-economic climate … unemployment and the factors that influence it. The information we used came from multiple sources, such as economic literature …
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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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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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of the unemployment experience are taken into account: i) displacement risk, measured by the probability of moving from … employment into unemployment; ii) job-search effectiveness measured by the probability of moving from unemployment into … the effect is positive in the most recent periods. For native transition from employment to unemployment a complementary …
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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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results show that job displacement increases the migration probability by ~70%. However, social capital in a region and … housing characteristics decrease the propensity to move, indicating that people do not make the migration decisions solely … based on short-term economic incentives. Migration has an immediate negative relationship with earnings, but the link …
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generates a negative effect on wages and an increase in the unemployment rate--and skilled workers, who benefit from higher … wages and lower unemployment. These changes in the labor market affect the government's revenue, resulting, in the long term …, in positive fiscal dividends of migration. …
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