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This paper examines the economic rationale for concern about the falling rate of growth of Europe's population. It also … assembles demographic and economic time-series data for the countries of Eastern and Western Europe during the postwar period …
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migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is …
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immigrants from outside of Europe for low-skilled jobs instead of competing with German natives. While Germany needs high …
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The paper examines why ‘globaphobia’ seems to be more prevalent among labour in the United States than in Europe. It … in Europe. In the United States, the median voter has lost wages and experienced rising job insecurity due to … globalization. By contrast, in Europe, the welfare state has largely insulated the median voter from the pains of globalization. The …
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This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes towards immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...
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OECD governments note rising immigration with alarm and grapple with policies aimed at selecting certain migrants and keeping out others. Economists appear to be well armed to advise governments since they are responsible for an impressive literature that examines the characteristics of...
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The objective of this paper is to highlight the importance of the ‘public finance’ impact of international migration on wages and welfare. To this end, we construct a general equilibrium model of a labour-exporting (source) and a labour-importing (host) country with identical consumers,...
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This paper analyses the return intentions of migrant workers. An intertemporal model is developed where the point of return to the home country is endogenous. The analysis emphasizes three explanations of why it should be optimal to migrate only temporarily: differences in relative prices in the...
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Differences in gender-based labour market discrimination across countries imply that migration may affect husbands and wives differently. If migrant wives experience a relative improvement in their labour market position, bargaining theory suggests that they should experience comparatively...
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This paper draws together, in the form of a survey, a number of different aspects of the United Kingdom's international migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of international migration and the factors influencing...
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