Showing 1 - 10 of 1,327
better information on migration and for wage premiums and discounts to be estimated across sectors and countries. The second … migration policies. Whilst it is possible to share the burdens of ageing and dependency through migration, this will not happen … under present arrangements. Migration cannot continue to be treated differently to trade and finance. A framework needs to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397300
Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011621227
Intensified European integration,enlargement of the EU,and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed … migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda.While many observers hesitate to embrace immigration … almost unanimous call for larger mobility within Europe.Yet, neither does intra-European migration respond to this request …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261007
Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed … migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. This paper identifies the salient questions to be … addressed by any educated migration policy. It embeds this discussion into a systematic classification of economic migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262800
Contrary to the welfare magnet hypothesis, empirical evidence suggests that immigration decisions are not made on the basis of the relative generosity of the receiving nation's social benefits. Even when immigrants are found to use welfare more intensively than natives, the gap is mostly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416301
Interstate migration in the United States has declined by 50 percent since the mid-1980s. This paper studies the role … in the labor market, which affects the migration rate of all workers. We document that an increase in the share of middle …-aged workers (those ages 40 to 60) in the working-age population in one state causes a large fall in the migration rate of all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423805
Declining internal migration in the United States is driven by increasing home attachment in locations with initially … attachment, this paper estimates a structural model of migration that distinguishes moving frictions from home utility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198332
Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed … migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. This paper identifies the salient questions to be … addressed by any educated migration policy. It embeds this discussion into a systematic classification of economic migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406723
migration, since the desire to migrate declines later in the life cycle. In addition, indirect labor demand effects may also … reduce migration. However, migration of the elderly, return retirement migration, as well as mobility of certain specialist …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421957
, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428182