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Authoritarianism and labor market : preference of labor policies in the Arab Gulf countries
Matsuo, Masaki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
Migrant and labor issues are a primary concern in the Arab Gulf countries. With focus on the economic and political conditions that influence actors' decisions when framing labor policies, this study analyzes how preferences of such policies are formed and explains why the governments of the...
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Skills and Talent of Immigrants:A Comparison between the European Union and the United States
Peri, Giovanni - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 2005
The nineties has been a period of increasing migratory flows from less developed countries to industrialized nations. It is instructive to compare the two largest economies in the world, the European Union and the United States, in terms of the magnitude, trends and composition of their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008620444
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The Effect of Mexican Workforce Migration on the Mexican Maquiladora Labor Market
Atkinson, Scott E.; Ibarra, Marilyn - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2007)
A great deal has been written about the effects of foreign migration on the wages of U.S. workers. However, little is … known about the effects of Mexican interstate immigration (i.e., internal Mexican migration) and international return … migration of labor and foreign capital on wages and employment in the maquiladora industry in Mexico. We examine these issues by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021346
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Potential emigration of Latvian labour force after joining the EU and its impact on Latvian labour market
Hazans, Mihails - Baltic International Center for Economic Policy Studies … - 2003
during the transition period as well as in the years to come. Updated inter-regional migration rates show that Latvian … countervailing factors; outflow rates tended to be larger from high unemployment regions. Analysis of individual migration decisions … made in 1989-1999 and migration plans for 1999-2002 confirms significance of economic incentives for geographical mobility …
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Demographics, Labor Mobility, and Productivity
Wilson, E. J.; Jayanthakumaran, K.; Verma, R. - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2012
it is possible to share the burdens of ageing and dependency through migration, this will not happen under present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010840218
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A "Glass-Ceiling" Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?
Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-employment Proclivity: A Bi-national Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762301
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123900
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Soaring Minds: The Flight of Israel’s Economists
Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Despite their small number, Israeli economists have become an important fixture in the international academic scene. In recent years, this phenomenon has been characterized by an additional attribute: the number of Israelis who have chosen to leave the country’s universities - or not to return...
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Labor market integration and migration: impacts on skill formation and the wage structure
BEHRENS, Kristian; SATO, Yasuhiro - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2006
We analyze the impacts of labor market integration and migration on skill formation, wage structures, and per capita … integration, by allowing for migration in response to wage differentials, changes the wage structures and, therefore, the … evidence concerning international migration, the widening international income dispersion, the narrowing national income …
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