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Open Borders in the European Union and Beyond : Migration Flows and Labor Market Implications
Kennan, John - 2017
places. This paper seeks to understand the labor market implications of allowing free migration across borders, with … particular reference to the EU. The aim is to quantify the migration flows associated with EU enlargement, and to analyze the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455632
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The Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Firms and Workers : Evidence from Switzerland
Beerli, Andreas - 2018
We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment substantially. Although many cross-border workers were highly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480953
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Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching
Orefice, Gianluca - 2020
The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high quality firms have strong incentives to screen for the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482041
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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2010
that offshoring will push natives toward jobs that are more intensive in communication-interactive skills and away from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462217
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Occupational Choice and Development
Eeckhout, Jan - 2007
The rise in world trade since 1970 has raised international mobility of labor services. We study the effect of such a globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output gains are U-shaped: A worldwide labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464960
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Substitution Between Immigrants, Natives, and Skill Groups
Borjas, George J. - 2011
The wage impact of immigration depends crucially on the elasticity of substitution between similarly skilled immigrants and natives and the elasticity of substitution between high school dropouts and graduates. This paper revisits the estimation of these elasticities. The U.S. data indicate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461198
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Migration State and Welfare State : Competition vs. Coordination in an Economic Union
Razin, Assaf - 2015
of migration. We argue that the differences between the U.S. and the EU - the degree of coordination among the member …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457063
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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe
D'Amuri, Francesco - 2011
In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461519
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New Technologies and Jobs in Europe
Albanesi, Stefania; Silva, António Dias da; Jimeno, Juan F. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine the link between labour market developments and new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI) and software in 16 European countries over the period 2011- 2019. Using data for occupations at the 3-digit level in Europe, we find that on average employment shares have increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322745
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Fiscal and Migration Competition
Razin, Assaf - 2010
labor migration, that may nullify the "race to the bottom" hypothesis. Labor migration is governed by net-of-tax factor … into account the effect of taxes and migration on factor rewards and the fiscal burden imposed by migration on the decisive … state member state), with tax financed benefits which is able to control the volume and the skill-composition of migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462431