The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over … immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates reveal the existence of a moderate correlation for non … zero causal impact of UBS on immigration. All estimates for immigrants from EU origins indicate that flows within the EU …

underline the importance of more open immigration policies targeting high-skilled immigrants. The current policy not only cannot …

stylized description of the past West German immigration problem. Examining the wage functions of white and blue collar natives …

employment of guest workers has a strong positive effect on the job safety of natives, however. The estimates imply that a 1 …% increase in the employment of guest workers is associated with a 1.7% decrease of less severe accidents and a 1.3% decrease of …

This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self …-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the … potential gains from either type of employment; the second takes into account that the determinants of the migration decision …

but changed the composition of the immigrants, (iii) any negative effects in the labour market on wages or employment are …

paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment … for their integration in the labor market. Since the focus is on the understanding of the self-employment decision, a two …-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not …

Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the … dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment … that lead to fluctuations between employment and self-employment, directly or through the unemployment state. Migrants are …

unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the … duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time hazard rate models …