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Workers without Borders? Culture, Migration and the Political Limits to Globalization

Jain, Sanjay; Majumdar, Sumon; Mukand, Sharun - CESifo - 2010

shortage in the economy. We show that countries that are poor at cultural assimilation are better positioned to take advantage … equilibria: some countries have mostly temporary migration programs and see a low degree of cultural assimilation by the migrants …, while other countries rely more on permanent migrants and see much more assimilation. …

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Labour Mobility and the Portability of Social Rights in the EU

d'Addio, Anna Cristina; Cavalleri, Maria Chiara - CESifo - 2013

The paper first discusses the main sources of concern for people in the perspective of professional mobility abroad as they result from the analysis of the Eurobarometer survey, wave 75.1 of 2011. Second, it tests whether portability of social security within Europe is a determinant of intra-EU...

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Do Ethnic Enclaves Impede Immigrants' Integration? Evidence from a Quasi-Experimental Social-Interaction Approach

Danzer, Alexander M.; Yaman, Firat - CESifo - 2012

It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society. Exploiting the quasi-experimental guest worker placement across German regions during the 1960/70s as well as information on immigrants’ inter-ethnic contact networks and...

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Managing Migration through Conflicting Policies: an Option-theory Perspective

Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - CESifo - 2009

Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), trying to limit the immigrants’ stock. On the other hand, there is an...

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Immigration and Entrepreneurship

Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not...

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The Effect of Temporary Migration Experience on Occupational Mobility in Estonia

Masso, Jaan; Eamets, Raul; Mõtsmees, Pille - CESifo - 2013

The literature on return migration includes several studies on the impact of foreign work experience on the returnees’ earnings or their decision to become self-employed; however in this paper we analyze the less studied effect on occupational mobility, i.e. how the job in home country after...

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Is Recipiency of Disability Pension Hereditary?

Bratberg, Espen; Nilsen, Øivind Anti; Vaage, Kjell - CESifo - 2012

This paper addresses whether children’s exposure to parents receiving disability benefits induces a higher probability of receiving such benefits themselves. Most OECD countries experience an increasing proportion of the working-age population receiving permanent disability benefits. Using...

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Unemployment and Endogenous Reallocation over the Business Cycle

Carrillo-Tudela, Carlos; Visschers, Ludo - CESifo - 2013

This paper studies unemployed workers’ decisions to change occupations, and their impact on fluctuations in aggregate unemployment and its underlying duration distribution. We develop an analytically and computationally tractable stochastic equilibrium model with heterogenous labor markets. In...

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The Relationship between Economic Preferences and Psychological Personality Measures

Becker, Anke; Deckers, Thomas; Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - CESifo - 2012

Although both economists and psychologists seek to identify determinants of heterogeneity in behavior, they use different concepts to capture them. In this review we first analyze the extent to which economic preferences and psychological concepts of personality - such as the Big Five and locus...

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Intergenerational Transmission of Unemployment - Evidence for German Sons

Mäder, Miriam; Müller, Steffen; Riphahn, Regina T.; … - CESifo - 2014

This paper studies the association between the unemployment experience of fathers and their sons. Based on German survey data that cover the last decades we find significant positive correlations. Using instrumental variables estimation and the Gottschalk (1996) method we investigate to what...

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