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High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe
Kahanec, Martin - 2011
Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131933
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Demographic Divide and Labor Migration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2011
This paper provides a demographic outlook of the Euro-Mediterranean region and then shows the economic and fiscal consequences of such demographic differences within a two-region model with international labor mobility. International labor mobility is also examined through an externalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117397
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Sizing it Up : Labor Migration Lessons of the EU Enlargement to 27
Constant, Amelie F. - 2011
While economists were pointing out the advantages of the EU enlargement, politicians and policymakers were raising … grave concerns about the significant political and economic differences between the newcomer states (EU12) and the "old … Europe" of EU15. The major point of apprehension was related to the labor markets. Visceral fear rendered more than one in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118036
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Unemployment Benefits and Immigration : Evidence from the EU
Giulietti, Corrado - 2011
immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates reveal the existence of a moderate correlation for non-EU … zero causal impact of UBS on immigration. All estimates for immigrants from EU origins indicate that flows within the EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118503
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Labor Mobility in an Enlarged European Union
Kahanec, Martin - 2012
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the EU extended the freedom of movement to workers from the twelve new member states …. Rather, there appear to have been positive effects on EU's productivity. The sending countries face some risks of losing … from brain gain and brain circulation in an enlarged EU. For the migrants the benefits in terms of better career prospects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107468
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The Effect of Migration and Spatial Connectivity on Regional Skill Endowments Across Europe : 1988-2010
Tani, Massimiliano - 2013
This paper investigates the effects of labour migration and openness to trade on regional skill endowments across the European Union at a time of increased economic integration. Using regional data from Eurostat's Regio database and the open web source Openflight for the period 1998-2010 we test...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084161
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What Happens to the Careers of European Workers When Immigrants 'Take Their Jobs'?
Cattaneo, Cristina - 2013
In this paper we use a dataset that follows a representative sample of native Europeans, resident of 11 countries, over the period 1995-2001, in order to identify the effect of inflows of immigrants on their career, employment, location and wage. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084663