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Regional Inequality and Human Capital Quality: The Impact of Technology on the Arrival Rate of Employment Offers
Alexiadis, Stilianos; Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
This paper aims to provide a conceptual and operational context for analysing regional inequalities. It does so by utilizing a ‘search & matching’ framework. The model, developed in this paper, maps the way in which individuals are distributed according to: 1) the abilities of individuals to...
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When the Quality of a Nation triggers Emigration
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
Why do people leave high-income countries with extensive welfare states? This article will examine what underlies the emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand emigration from high-income countries we focus not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256776
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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with … immigration than the highly educated. Experience with foreigners arising from social contact matters in positively appreciating … significant effect on the evaluation of the number of foreigners present. The biggest effect on immigration preferences is …
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Immigration and Innovation in European Regions
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
this paper we measure the impact of the size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the innovativeness of host regions … of McDonald's restaurants as a novel instrument for immigration. The results confirm that innovation is clearly a …
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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
-economic phenomenon for many countries. Since the early 1980s, many studies have been undertaken of the impact of immigration on host … labour markets. Borjas (2003) noted that the estimated effect of immigration on the wage of native workers varies widely from … immigration on wages of native groups with similar skills appears rather robust. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256215
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The Fallacy of “Job Robbing”: A Meta-Analysis of Estimates of the Effect of Immigration on Employment
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to … countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened. There is also in public discourse a common perception of immigration … immigration on labour market outcomes. Applying meta-analytic techniques to 165 estimates from 9 recent studies for various OECD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256304
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The Economic Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market of Host Countries - Meta-Analytic Evidence
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256749
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Employment Assimilation of Immigrants in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
Forthcoming in the <I>International Journal of Population Research</I>, Vol. 2012.<P> Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences between immigrants by source country. Non-western immigrants never reach parity with native Dutch....</p></i>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011256701
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Ranking Systemically Important Financial Institutions
Dungey, Mardi; Luciani, Matteo; Veredas, David - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
We propose a simple network–based methodology for ranking systemically important financial institutions. We view the risks of firms –including both the financial sector and the real economy– as a network with nodes representing the volatility shocks. The metric for the connections of the...
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Insurance Sector Risk
Slijkerman, Jan Frederik - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
We model and measure simultaneous large losses of the market value of insurers to understand the impact of shocks on the insurance sector. The downside risk of insurers is explicitly modelled by common and idiosyncratic risk factors. Since reinsurance is important for the capacity of insurers,...
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