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Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off …
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) and fostering migration, notably of skilled workers. The significant ageing-related decline in the labour force …
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using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that … flexible, particularly with regard to migration, while those further east are less so. …
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migration flows between the 'old' and the 'new' member countries of the European Union. Against this background an assessment is … made of the characteristics, features and impacts of migration flows that may emerge from a further liberalization of …
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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....
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Germany has experienced a substantial influx of German immigrants from Eastern Europe after World War II and expects several million more as a consequence of the demise of socialism. This paper analyses the economic performance of ethnic German migrants to West Germany in comparison with native...
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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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This paper provides a comparative examination of how public universities in two countries, the United States and Israel, have evolved over the past few decades - and how differences between the two have culminated in a rate of academic brain drain from the latter to the former that is...
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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 …
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include an administrative estimate of immigrants' expected wage in Germany at the time of migration. We find that a 10% higher … pointing at partial transferability of pre-migration skills to the host country's labor market. We also document that wage … complementarities between pre-migration skills and host country-specific human capital and a U-shaped pattern of immigrants' job …
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