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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...
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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,...
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compete for jobs with low-skilled immigrants willing to work for much lower wages. We examine new data on attitudes toward … and occupational skills are more likely to favor immigration regardless of the skill attributes of the immigrants in … question. Across Europe, higher education and higher skills mean more support for all types of immigrants. These relationships …
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Since recent immigrants tend to earn less than natives, their relative labor market status has been adversely impacted … earnings gap between immigrants and natives in order to estimate what the gap would have been if the return to skills had … a 10 to 15 percentage point decrease in the relative earnings of recent immigrants. Thus examining solely the earnings …
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The first of May 2004 marked an important date in the history of Europe as a political, geographic, and social entity. After years of negotiations, ten European countries joined the European Union, bringing in their potential and expectations, adding a total population of 75 million people and a...
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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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present a comprehensive statistical and econometric analysis of employment, unemployment and participation in Poland in the … employment and participation rates. We begin with a detailed analysis of the reasons of the rapid decrease of employment and … on structural mismatch between labour demand and labour supply in Poland. We find that the employment gap between Poland …
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This study addresses the effects of macroeconomic conditions on the labour market outcomes of immigrants. It … along with employment outcomes are explored. The study uses 19 annual cross-sections of the Survey of Consumer Finances … covering the period 1979 to 1997. The results suggest that the deterioration in the assimilation of recent immigrants is partly …
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This study addresses the effects of macroeconomic conditions on the labour market outcomes of immigrants. It … along with employment outcomes are explored. The study uses 19 annual cross-sections of the Survey of Consumer Finances … covering the period 1979 to 1997. The results suggest that the deterioration in the assimilation of recent immigrants is partly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408360
In this study, the Hysteresis Hypothesis that assumes the natural rate of unemployment follows the last period’s realised unemployment was examined for the Turkish case by using annual data for the period of 1950-1995. The technique used in this study is the Kalman – Filter that is using as...
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