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Not welcome anymore : the effect of electoral incentives on the reception of refugees

Gamalerio, Matteo - 2018

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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Knowledge remittances : does emigration foster innovation?

Fackler, Thomas; Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2018

? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …

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Retirement, housing mobility, downsizing and neighbourhood quality : a causal investigation

Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021

This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of retirement on housing choices. Our empirical strategy exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision and controls for time-invariant individual...

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New region, new chances : does moving regionally for university shape later job mobility?

Ehrenfried, Felix; Fackler, Thomas; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2022

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Challenged by migration : Europe's options

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the … that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes with a crisis of European institutions in general. Migration and labor … survive or collapse even if it solves its migration challenge. But it will most likely collapse, if it fails to solve the …

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On the economics and politics of refugee migration

Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Frattini, Tommaso; … - 2016

This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of refugee migration, with emphasis on the current refugee crisis. After …

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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016

selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …

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How job changes affect people's lives : evidence from subjective well-being data

Chadi, Adrian; Hetschko, Clemens - 2016

For representative German panel data, we show that voluntary job switching leads to relatively high levels of life satisfaction, though only for some time, whereas the impact of exogenously triggered job changes is ambiguous. Risk aversion interacts negatively with this effect in life...

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Self-employment as a stepping stone to better labour market matching : a comparison between immigrants and natives

Ulceluse, Magdalena M. - 2018

The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market matching, in a comparative analysis between immigrants and natives. Using the EU Labour Force Survey for the year 2012, and controlling for a list of demographic characteristics and...

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Look who's talking : on the heterogeneous returns to foreign language use at work among natives and migrants in Europe

Wang, Zhiling; Graaff, Thomas de; Nijkamp, Peter - 2017

We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and foreign-born workers, using a longitudinal survey, viz. the European Community Household Panel (ECHP) running from 1994 to 2001. Our findings are the following. First, for native-born...

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