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Discrimination in the Swiss Labour Market: an Empirical Analysis
Golder, Stefan M.; Straubhaar, Thomas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Recent studies have shown that there are significant earnings differentials between immigrants and natives in Switzerland. The goal of this paper is to determine whether these differences can be attributed to diverging socio-economic endowments or to discrimination. We use the well-known...
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Language and the Earnings of Immigrants
Dustmann, Christian; van Soest, Arthur - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
A number of studies have established a positive effect of migrants' language proficiency on their productivity. It has …
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The Challenge of Reducing International Trade and Migration Barriers
Anderson, Kym; Winters, L. Alan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
While barriers to trade in most goods and some services including capital flows have been reduced considerably over the past two decades, many remain. Such policies harm most the economies imposing them, but the worst of the merchandise barriers (in agriculture and textiles) are particularly...
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The Evolution of Citizenship: Economic and Institutional Determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
demographic structure of the population. Overall, a large stock of migrants decreases the probability of adoption of a mix of jus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792114
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Determinants of International Migration: Empirical Evidence for Migration from Developing Countries to Germany
Rotte, Ralph; Vogler, Michael - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998
countries. Information is available on overall moves (1981–95) and asylum migration (1984–95). The estimation results confirm …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792254
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Differences in the Labour Market Behaviour Between Temporary and Permanent Migrant Women
Dustmann, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper analyses labour market behaviour of married migrant women. The theoretical analysis shows that migrants who … intend to remain only temporarily in the host country are likely to exhibit a different labour market behaviour than migrants … who wish to stay permanently. The reason is that temporary migrants condition their behaviour in the host country on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792423
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The Political Economy of International Migration in a Ricardo-Viner Model
de Melo, Jaime; Grether, Jean-Marie; Müller, Tobias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
Determinants of national policies towards immigration are analysed in the context of an economy open to international trade. Arguments for the existence of an ‘immigration surplus’ are reviewed and followed by an interpretative survey of the principal contributions of the political economy...
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The Cliometrics of International Migration: A Survey
Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
organised around six themes that include: the forces driving migration, over time and across space; the assimilation of migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468557
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EU Enlargement under Continued Mobility Restrictions: Consequences for the German Labor Market
Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979473
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Who is Afraid of Globalization? The Challenge of Domestic Adjustment in Europe and America
Sapir, André - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
The paper examines why ‘globaphobia’ seems to be more prevalent among labour in the United States than in Europe. It argues that globalization has generated more wealth, but also more income inequality and adjustment problems, in America than in Europe. In the United States, the median voter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123640