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, we test whether and how much language proficiency determines migration flows across Europe. The European Union with …
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influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices, employment rates and internal migration patterns in regions of Turkey … limited migration out of the region, but there is a significant decline in internal migration into regions hosting refugees …. Nevertheless, the decline in internal in-migration is less than a tenth of the refugee influx, implying that there is little …
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Many unaccompanied children have applied for asylum during the last few years, especially in 2015. These children face special challenges and risk being exploited due to their age and legal status. In this paper we survey research and otherwise documented experiences regarding this group of...
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benefits on the migration decision. While benefits simply increase the expected gain for risk neutral individuals, they work as … an insurance device for risk averse migrants; the results for the two groups might differ. Thus, the migration decision … model suggests increased migration incentives independent of taste and a positive selection of risk neutral individuals …
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The purpose of this paper is to review what has been learnt about Irish migration from the work of social scientists …
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able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …
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Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well … understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc … application to the case of EU-enlargement and the ensuing migration streams to be expected from Eastern Europe. …
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This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
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Gavosto, Venturini, Villosio (1999) find that the impact of foreign workers on the wage of natives was positive. Such a result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects of the unemployment experience are taken into...
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Do electoral incentives affect immigration policies? I study this question in the setting of Italian municipalities making decisions about the reception of refugees. The localized control of the reception policy (SPRAR), combined with the exogenous timing of policy decisions and staggered...
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