Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more … change the international and national distribution of skills and thereby equality in the receiving society. This paper …

employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …

unknown wage offer distribution and different reference standards, provide theoretical justifications for this conjecture. In … reservation wages may arise. In as far as language skills or self-evaluated returns to characteristics reflect a person’s frames …

migration waves of the late 19th and early 20th centuries has left a legacy on the economic development of the counties where … look at the geography of migration across US counties in the 48 continental states. We then link this settlement pattern of … number of factors which may have influenced both the location of migrants at the time of migration, as well as for the …

the wage gap between an advanced and a backward region to reduce the rate of migration, follows from the standard model … implications of the individual migration decision and government intervention in the form of employment subsidies are also examined. …This paper presents a critical survey of theories of migration, their welfare and policy implications and their …

This Paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labour … policy in economies with labour market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric … regression is feasible in higher dimensions with only a few thousand observations. In sum, labour markets able to absorb …

even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labour market. In a country … like Germany occupations also reflect a general socio-economic standing. This Paper looks at the patterns of employment in … choice, and that individuals with more education choose higher-ranking jobs. The role of experience is important for natives …

? This Paper uses a unique dataset (covering about 3 million Hungarian wage earners, from 1986 to 1998) and a novel procedure … losers are those in manufacturing and agriculture and, surprisingly, those who received their formal education after the …