Migration and Mobility in Eurppe Trends, Patterns and Control Edited by Heinz Fassmann Professor of Applied Geography, Regional Research and Spatial Planning, University of Vienna, Austria Max Haller Professor of Sociology, University of Graz, Austria David Lane Fellow of Emmanuel...

We quantify the barriers that impede the integration of immigrants into foreign labor markets and investigate their aggregate implications. We develop a model of occupational choice with natives and immigrants of multiple types whose decisions are subject to wedges which distort their allocation...

Structural change has implications for various dimensions of development, including poverty reduction. However, the existing empirical literature on Sub-Saharan African economies, including Tanzania, has mainly focused on trends and patterns in macroeconomic or aggregate welfare indicators,...

Wie in sämtlichen anderen Industrienationen, so steigt auch in Deutschland der Bedarf an hochqualifizierten Arbeitskräften. Grund ist der anhaltende Strukturwandel hin zu einer forschungs- und wissensintensiven Gesellschaft. Bereits jetzt zeichnen sich jedoch Engpässe bei den qualifizierten...

This paper develops a Harris-Todaro (HT) type model of East-West migration in which labor market imperfections prevent market clearing in both blocs. The model encompasses two extremes of perfectly flexible wages with full employment on the one hand and the HT scenario, where the real wage in...