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Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants
Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021
In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...
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Risk Sharing in Currency Unions : The Migration Channel
Kohler, Wilhelm; Müller, Gernot J.; Wellmann, Susanne - 2021
quantify risk sharing can be extended to account for migration as an additional channel of cross-country risk sharing. In … theory, migration should play a key role when it comes to insulating per capita consumption from aggregate fluctuations, and … these results, we also present survey evidence which shows that migration rates are about 20 times higher in the US. Lastly …
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Overcoming History Through Exit or Integration - Deep-Rooted Sources of Support for the European Union
Gehring, Kai - 2020
Preferences about the vertical distribution of power in federal systems are not well understood. I argue that negative historical experiences with higher-level governments can plausibly raise demands for exit strategies and a devolution of power. But integration, for instance delegating power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840224
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The Impact of Consumer Protection in the Digital Age : Evidence from the European Union
Rösner, Anja - 2020
We investigate the effect of an EU-wide consumer protection regulation on consumer trust as well as consumer behavior. The Unfair Commercial Practice Directive (UCPD) was implemented by EU member states between 2007 and 2010. We utilize data from the Special and Flash Eurobarometer for the years...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841928
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The Impact of Council's Internal Decision-Making Rules on the Future EU
Widgren, Mika - 2021
This paper deals with the voting rules in the EU Council. Both internal and external impact of the voting rules are evaluated. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the member states and external impact affects power relations between the main decision-making bodies in the EU....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316612
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Rallying Around the EU Flag : Russia's Invasion of Ukraine and Attitudes Toward European Integration
Berlinschi, Ruxanda; Farvaque, Etienne; Fidrmuc, Jan; … - 2022
This paper uses a survey among students at European universities to explore whether Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has affected attitudes toward European integration. Some respondents completed the survey just before Russia’s assault on February 24, 2022, and some did so just afterwards, thus...
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Migration and Cultural Change
Rapoport, Hillel - 2020
We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our … theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823554
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The Social Integration of International Migrants : Evidence from the Networks of Syrians in Germany
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew; Koenen, Martin; … - 2022
We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that received a large influx of refugees during the Syrian Civil War. We construct measures of migrants’ social integration based on Syrians’ friendship links to Germans, their...
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Is Hard Brexit Detrimental to EU Integration? Theory and Evidence
Mikolajun, Irena - 2018
In the struggle between the forces of free trade and the restrictive influence of insularism the latter recently seems to have the upper hand. This is illustrated by the referendum of June 23, 2016 where the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU). In this paper we evaluate...
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Quantifying Brexit : From Ex Post to Ex Ante Using Structural Gravity
Smarzynska Javorcik, Beata - 2020
Exploiting changes in the geography of economic integration in Europe, this paper uses detailed Exploiting changes in the geography of economic integration in Europe, we quantify the economic consequences of Brexit using a quantitative general equilibrium model that captures inter- and...
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