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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 been argued that these estimates are upward-biased because of the presence of unobserved heterogeneity. To obtain an accurate estimate of language effects is important since it...
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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
barriers (in agriculture and textiles) are particularly harmful to the world’s poorest people, as are barriers to worker … process at the World Trade Organization (WTO), and freeing up the international movement of workers. A review of the economic … required to rank this set of opportunities against those aimed at addressing the world’s other key challenges as part of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792099
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The Evolution of Citizenship: Economic and Institutional Determinants
Bertocchi, Graziella; Strozzi, Chiara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
. We compile a new data set on citizenship laws across countries of the world which documents how these institutions have …
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
By means of a descriptive survey of theoretical literature we first work out the potential determinants that may drive international migration from developing to developed countries. In addition, we look at the relationship between trade, development and migration. Empirical studies focusing on...
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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...
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
migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …
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. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...
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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