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The European Union aims at a stronger participation by its population in work to foster growth and welfare. There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labour force, and discussions about the necessary policy responses. Integrated labour and migration policies are needed. The...
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conditions play a major role. Among these, it is not so much the income level that matters for young migrants, but other working …
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This paper provides an evaluation of the status of migrant workers in Germany amidst the global financial crisis. Findings of the study are drawn from the latest available data on the labour market performance of native-German and non-German migrant workers as well as other socioeconomic...
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There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
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Among all European countries, Germany absorbs by far the largest number of immigrants. But to date, the German government has yet to adopt a system that will effectively control the influx of foreigners. The immigration of Ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe, which is due to historical events and...
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development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …
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scant attention is that immigrants, as consumers of the goods they help produce, contribute to their own demand. We examine … the effects of an immigration shock on labor demand by testing a general equilibrium model in which imperfectly … substitution of immigrants for natives; (ii) out-migration; and (iii) stimulation of labor demand. According to (iii), native wages …
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-marriage) on annual income from any remaining positive selection effects into respective marriage type. Results from fixed effects …. Significant pre-marriage income growth and a lack of post-marriage income growth for those that marry natives suggest that …
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market and non-market income as well as taxes and social security contributions. This income portfolio analysis is based on … have an even better relative income position than the autochthonous West German population. In general, we confirm the well … immigrants profit slightly. This is due to above average non-market income of "pure" immigrants. However, East Germans are still …
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on income. This paper provides estimates of the effects of trade and immigration on income in a unified framework. We … income per capita unaffected because of an offsetting negative effect on TFP. In contrast, trade flows appear to increase … income per capita, mainly through TFP growth, and have no impact on the employment rate. The positive employment effect of …
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