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migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of … international migration and the factors influencing migration; the background to, and the development of, restrictions on … of migration on the economy at large are briefly discussed. …
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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 UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK … for increased migration from the EaP countries to help fill skill gaps, it seems very unlikely that the UK will allow …
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We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing on internal migration in the U.S. We begin by … describing approaches to modelling individuals' migration decisions and equilibrium outcomes across local areas. Next, we … summarize evidence regarding the impact of migration on individuals' outcomes, implications of migration for local labor market …
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This paper reviews and analyzes the effects of Canada's post World War II immigration policies with the perspective of what European policy makers can learn from this experience. Impact of Immigration on natives' employment and earnings, as well as, immigrants' labor market experiences are...
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Most developed countries have foreign aid programs that aim to alleviate poverty and foster economic growth in less developed countries, but with very limited success. A large body of evidence indicates that the root of the economic development problem is cross-country differences in the...
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For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host … country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global … economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably …
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During the African American Great Migration, millions of blacks left the Southern USA in favor of cities in the North …. Despite the social and economic consequences of this migration, the question of its impacts on labor markets in the North has … aggregate Northern labor market to provide new evidence on the effects of the Great Migration on wages in the North, redoubling …
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Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country's labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...
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We examine changes in migration to the UK in the period leading up to the Great Recession and in its immediate … aftermath. In so doing, we pay particular attention to the changing countries of origin of recent migration flows to the UK …, especially in relation to migration from other parts of the EU. The evolving patterns of migrants' socio-economic characteristics …
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