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IMMIGRANTS IN SPAIN: SKILLS ACQUISITION AND DEVELOPMENT. A REGIONAL STUDY.
Díaz-Emparanza, Ignacio; Espinosa, Alexandra M. - EconWPA - 2001
The consequences of international migration for development in countries of origin and destination remain hotly debated … (attending a school), if the immigration police only authorizes very short migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408307
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A double gender-family inequality phenomenon in the international mobility of young researchers
Moguérou, Philippe - EconWPA - 2004
In this paper, we raise the question of gender differences in the geographic mobility of young researchers. We try to answer to three main questions regarding the international mobility of young researchers during the post-doc period: Are there differences among genders? Does “family” have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556413
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The Effect of Changes in the U.S. Wage Structure on Recent Immigrants' Earnings
Lubotsky, Darren - EconWPA - 2001
Since recent immigrants tend to earn less than natives, their relative labor market status has been adversely impacted by an increase in the return to labor market skills and widening wage inequality over the past two decades. To evaluate the magnitude of this effect, this study uses Social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408315
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Chutes or Ladders? A Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Earnings
Lubotsky, Darren - EconWPA - 2000
of back-and-forth migration between the U.S. and immigrants' home countries. The misclassification in previous work of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408366
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Does Commuting Reduce Wage Disparities?
Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005
This paper shows that in the Baltic countries, commuting reduces urban- rural wage and employment disparities and increases national output. To quantify the effect of commuting on wage differentials, two sets of earnings functions are estimated (based on Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian Labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076527
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Moving to Jobs?
Maré, Dave; Timmins, Jason - EconWPA - 2003
and migration flows to gauge the strength of the relationship and the stability of the relationship over the business … strongly related to that region's fortunes. We also find that migration flows to the metropolitan regions of Auckland …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556783
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Migration, Labor Market Flexibility, and Wage Determination in China: A Review
Zhao, Zhong - EconWPA - 2005
This paper reviews economic studies on rural-urban migration issues in China. The paper focuses on four issues: the … household registration system in China, the profile of the migrants, explanations for rural-to-urban migration, and the … interaction between migration and labor market evolution, with special reference to labor market segregation, labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556784
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Macroeconomic Determinants of Workers’ Remittances: Host vs. Home Country’s Economic Conditions
Vargas-Silva, Carlos; Huang, Peng - EconWPA - 2005
This study examines the determinants of worker’s remittances. Variance decompositions, impulse response functions and Granger causality tests derived from a vector error correction model are used to test if remittances are affected by the macroeconomic conditions of the host (remittance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119455
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Lesotho: Will the Enclave Empty?
cobbe, james - EconWPA - 2004
This is a brief and largely descriptive summary of migration flows in and out of Lesotho, and trends therein over tha …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005555999
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Migration and Regional Disparities: the Role of Skill Biased Flows
Fratesi, Ugo; Riggi, Massimiliano - EconWPA - 2004
paper. Within this framework, we identify and model two complementary mechanisms for skill biased migration flows to take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556209