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Migration and Regional Adjustment and Asymmetric Shocks in Transition Economies

Fidrmuc, Jan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

Does migration facilitate regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks? The evidence from post-communist economies … indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing inter-regional unemployment and wage differentials has in fact been rather … low. High wages appear to encourage, and, similarly, high unemployment tends to discourage, overall migration - inbound …

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Labor Mobility during Transition: Evidence from the Czech Republic

Fidrmuc, Jan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

central planning to a market economy. I show that the intensity of migration is low and even has fallen during the transition … facilitating labormarket adjustment to employment shocks. Using aggregate inter-regional migration data and survey data on past and … prospective migration and the willingness to move. I find that economic factor play little role in explaining migration patterns …

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Determinants of Interregional Mobility in Russia: Evidence from Panel Data

Andrienko, Yuri; Guriev, Sergei - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

The paper studies determinants of internal migration in Russia. Using panel data on gross region-to-region migration … flows in 1992-99, we estimate the effect of economic, political and social factors. Although overall migration is rather low … prospering both in terms of employment prospects and public goods. Migration is however constrained by the lack of liquidity; for …

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Worker Flows, Job Flows and Firm Wage Policies: An Analysis of Slovenia

Haltiwanger, John; Vodopivec, Milan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

Like many transition economies, Slovenia is undergoing profound changes in the workings of the labor market with potentially greater flexibility in terms of both wage and employment adjustment. We investigate the impact of the changing labor market for Slovenia using unique longitudinal matched...

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The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying

Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F.; Mishra, Prachi - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2014

How is economic policy made? In this paper we study a key determinant of the answer to the question: lobbying by firms. Estimating a binary choice model of firm behavior, we find significant evidence for the idea that barriers to entry induce persistence in lobbying. The existence of...

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Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of U.S. Firms

Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2014

We study the impact of skilled immigrants on the employment structures of U.S. firms using matched employer-employee data. Unlike most previous work, we use the firm as the lens of analysis to account for a greater level of heterogeneity and the fact that many skilled immigrant admissions...

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The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

Kerr, William; Lincoln, William - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2010

This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and patenting by inventors with Indian...

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Voice of the Diaspora: An Analysis of Migrant Voting Behavior

Fidrmuc, Jan; Doyle, Orla - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

. These results are interpreted as indicating that migrants’ political preferences change in the wake of migration as they …

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Price Linkages of Russian Regional Markets

Gluschenko, Konstantin - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006

Exploiting time series of the cost of a staples basket across 75 Russian regions over 1994-2000, price linkages of the regions are analyzed with the use of Granger causality as a tool. Price linkages of Russian regions are found extensive: on average, an individual regional market is linked...

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Gross Job Flows in Ukraine: Size, Ownership and Trade Effects

Konings, Jozef; Kupets, Olga; Lehmann, Hartmut - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

This paper documents and analyses gross job flows and their determinants in Ukraine using a unique data set of more than 2200 Ukrainian firms operating in both the manufacturing and the non-manufacturing sector for the years 1998-2000. There are several important findings in the paper. Job...

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