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Did post-enlargement labor mobility help the EU to adjust during the Great Recession? : the case of Slovakia

Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2014

This paper evaluates the mobility patterns of Slovaks into the rest of the European Union (EU) following Slovakia's EU accession in 2004 and through the Great Recession. Combining information from various data sources including the Slovak Labor Force Survey and conducting our own statistical...

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Should i stay or should i go? : Romanian migrants during transition and enlargements

Andrén, Daniela; Roman, Monica - 2014

The change in Romanian political regime in 1989 has lifted the barriers for population circulation and mobility that were further more amplified in 2002 by the liberalization of Romanians' circulation in the Schengen space. In such context, the aim of this paper is to analyze to what extent...

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The labor demand was downward sloping : disentangling migrants' inflows and outflows, 1929 - 1957

Biavaschi, Costanza - 2012

This paper studies in- and out-migration from the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century and assesses how these flows affected state-level labor markets. It shows that out-migration positively impacted the wages of remaining workers, while in-migration had a negative impact. Hence,...

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Migration and Culture

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2010

Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...

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The labor market integration of Syrian refugees in Turkey

Demirci, Murat; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021

Turkey hosts the largest population of refugees globally; however, we know little about their labor market outcomes at the national level. We use the 2018 round of the Turkey Demographic and Health Survey, which includes a representative sample of Syrian refugees in Turkey for the first time, to...

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The economics of diversity: innovation, productivity, and the labour market

Ozgen, Ceren - 2021

The empirical evidence on the economic impacts of diversity is mixed. Many studies in the literature present context dependent and data driven results which are challenging to reconcile with each other. This paper offers a systematic synthesis of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of...

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The labor market impacts of Venezuelan refugees and migrants in Brazil

Shamsuddin, Mrittika; Acosta, Pablo; Schwengber, Rovane … - 2022

As more and more Venezuelans leave their country, fleeing the economic and social crisis, the number of Venezuelans in Brazil has risen steadily since 2016, constituting about 18.6 percent of Brazil's 1.4 million refugee and migrant population as of October 2020. Past research finds that the...

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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly...

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Development level of hosting areas and the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes

Aracı, Doğu Tan; Demircioğlu, Murat; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2021

We examine how the impact of refugees on natives' labor market outcomes varies by the development level of hosting … the significant variation in the development level across regions of Turkey, several of which host a substantial number of … development level rises. For instance, the negative effects of the refugee shock on employment and labor force participation of …

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Global job quality : evidence from wage employment across developing countries

Hovhannisyan, Shoghik; Montalva-Talledo, Veronica; … - 2022

Measuring job quality across countries has been challenging and has relied typically on a single indicator, such as formality or wages. To contribute to this critical policy issue, this paper presents a first global estimate of job quality departing from microdata. It assembles a harmonized...

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