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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. …

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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

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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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Education, Job Search and Migration

Basker, Emek - EconWPA - 2003

Job-search and migration behavior differ across educational groups. In this paper, I explore several differences … between the migration and search behavior of workers with different levels of education, both theoretically and empirically. I … start with two stylized facts. First, the propensity to migrate increases with education. Second, conditional on migration …

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Public pensions and immigration policy when voters are differently skilled

Krieger, Tim - EconWPA - 2004

Although immigration of workers generates a positive externality on members of domestic pension systems, many countries are very reluctant to allow foreigners into their labor markets. In a political economic framework, we explain this voting outcome by considering a young unskilled median voter...

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Educated Preferences: Explaining Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe

Hainmueller, Jens; Hiscox, Michael J. - EconWPA - 2005

Recent studies of individual attitudes toward immigration emphasize concerns about labor market competition as a potent source of anti- immigrant sentiment, in particular among less-educated or less-skilled citizens who fear being forced to compete for jobs with low-skilled immigrants willing to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062482

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...

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