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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556784
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The Geographical Mobility of Mâori in New Zealand
Sin, Isabelle; Stillman, Steven - EconWPA - 2005
This paper describes the geographical location and internal mobility of the Mâori ethnic group in New Zealand between 1991 and 2001. It is often suggested that Mâori are less mobile than other ethnic groups because of attachment to particular geographical locations. We compare the mobility of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556799
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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 … effects from immigration as well. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125989
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Effects of Business Cycles on Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003
covering the period 1979 to 1997. The results suggest that the deterioration in the assimilation of recent immigrants is partly … inclusion of controls for macro conditions, the significance and magnitude of the coefficient measuring assimilation increases …. Therefore, not only the estimated cohort effects bur also the assimilation profiles are sensitive to the inclusion of controls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408346
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Are Immigrants Positively or Negatively Selected? The Role of Immigrant Selection Criteria and Self-Selection
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003
This paper specifies and estimates a structural model of international migration using micro data. This provides a direct test of human capital theory that suggests that individuals respond to the earnings differentials across countries while making their migration decisions. The paper specifies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408353
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Effects of Business Cycles on Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003
covering the period 1979 to 1997. The results suggest that the deterioration in the assimilation of recent immigrants is partly … inclusion of controls for macro conditions, the significance and magnitude of the coefficient measuring assimilation increases …. Therefore, not only the estimated cohort effects bur also the assimilation profiles are sensitive to the inclusion of controls …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408360
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Explaining the Deteriorating Entry Earnings of Canada’s Immigrant
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Skuterud, Mikal - EconWPA - 2004
The study explores causes of the deterioration in entry earnings of Canadian immigrant cohorts by estimating an empirical specification that nests a number of competing explanations found in the Canadian literature. To do this, we use the pooled sample of Canadian-born and immigrant men employed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408361
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An examination of hysteresis hypothesis on natural rate of unemployment in the case of Turkey
Kucukkale, Yakup - EconWPA - 2002
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408291
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Why are similar workers paid differently? The role of social networks.
Francois, Fontaine - EconWPA - 2004
We provide a matching model where identical workers are embedded in ex- ante identical social networks. Job arrival rate is endogeneous and wages are bargained. We study the evolution of networks with time and characterize the equilibrium distribution of unemployment rates across networks. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408313
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Do workers really benefit from their social networks?
Fontaine, Francois - EconWPA - 2003
This paper provides a simple matching model in which unemployed workers and employers in large firms can be matched together through social networks or through more "formal" methods of search. We show that networks do not necessarily add new externalities and that some results previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005412695