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In this paper we study the social, demographic and economic origins of social security. The data for the U.S. and for a cross section of countries make it clear that urbanization and industrialization are strongly associated with the rise of social insurance. We describe a model economy in which...
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This paper's main purpose is to gauge immigrants' demand for social assistance and services and identify the key barriers to social and labor market inclusion of immigrants in the European Union. The data from an online primary survey of experts from organizations working on immigrant...
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migrants. This paper explores the issue of welfare migration across the 15 countries of the pre-enlargement Union and finds a …
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This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed countries. We utilize free-movement within the EU to examine the free migration regime and compare...
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Migration between countries with earnings-related and flat-rate pay-as-you-go social security systems may change human capital investments in both countries. The possibility of emigration boosts investments in human capital in the country with flat-rate benefits. Correspondingly, those expecting...
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Within immigrant society different groups wish to help the migrants in different ways – immigrant societies are multi … the migrants. To do so they need migrant groups to invest effort in helping their country-folk. Migrant groups compete …
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affect assimilation and attitudes towards migrants and international trade. The narrow interests of the different groups may …
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of the unemployment experience are taken into account: i) displacement risk, measured by the probability of moving from … employment into unemployment; ii) job-search effectiveness measured by the probability of moving from unemployment into … the effect is positive in the most recent periods. For native transition from employment to unemployment a complementary …
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-term labor contracts that lead to wage rigidities and unemployment. Reflecting the interdependence of regional labor markets, we …
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workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …
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