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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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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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question. Across Europe, higher education and higher skills mean more support for all types of immigrants. These relationships … 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 …
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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 … of one, whole Europe, ruled by law, an area of Freedom, Security and Justice. Romania fights against immigration flows … Europe, living there alike other Europeans. Until the European Union Member States will decide that Romania truly deserves to …
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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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Many studies show that individuals from ethnic minority groups receive low levels of job-related training, raising the question of whether lower expected wage benefits contribute to this lack of training. In this paper, unit record data are used to examine the effect of job- related training on...
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This paper considers a two-country world where the population in one country grows faster than the other, and investigates the implications of the addition of non-stationary population dynamics to a simple 2- commodity, 2-factor model of international trade within an overlapping- generations...
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The current research emphasis on institutions as key determinants of economic performance, rather than on resources and resource productivity, has uncovered important questions for further research. For example, if institutions are central to economic performance, then what explains observed...
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Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at addressing a small part of these questions. It...
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declining in Lithuania (despite absence of Russian language higher education) but widening in Latvia. …
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