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Social Cohesion and Labor Mobility
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Social cohesion and labor mobility both have the same objective and do not need to be in conflict. They are about cooperating among individuals and societies in order to survive and prosper. Social cohesion can benefit from labour mobility: Labour mobility is economically beneficial for migrants...
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Internal Mobility after the Expansion of the Welfare State: Evidence from Spain
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Borra, Cristina - 2018
place by the 2000s. At the same time, internal migration rates dropped to less than 0.3 percent -among the lowest in the …
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The productivity effects of worker mobility between heterogeneous firms
Stockinger, Bastian; Wolf, Katja - 2016
Several empirical studies find that worker inflows from more productive or otherwise superior firms increase hiring firms' productivity. We conduct a similar analysis for Germany, using a unique linked employer-employee data set, and ranking sending and hiring establishments by their median...
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Tax deductibility of commuting expenses and residential land use with more than one center
Wrede, Matthias - 2003
This paper analyzes the treatment of commuting expenses by the income tax code from a normative and a positive point of view within a continuous space framework with endogenous residence choices and perfect labor mobility. As commuting expenses should never be deductible from the income tax base...
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Labor markets and labor mobility in the French-German border region
Knörr, Marlene; Weber, Enzo - 2018
This paper examines the cross-border labor market in the French-German Upper Rhine Region. Based on shortage analyses conducted for both sides of the border, a fixed effects panel regression estimates the impact of changing labor market situations on the number of French frontier workers....
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Ability Drain: Size, Impact, and Comparison with Brain Drain under Alternative Immigration Policies
Schiff, Maurice - 2017
) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h), and productive human …, and b) the 'vetting' system (VS) which accounts for s (e.g., US H-1B program). Findings are: i) Migration reduces (raises …
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Should I stay or should I go? Migration and job-skills mismatch among Italian doctoral recipients
Alfano, Vincenzo; D'Uva, Marcella; De Simone, Elina; … - 2019
’ selfselection into non-academic employment as well as the endogeneity of the migration choice. Results demonstrate that migration … seems to facilitate the possibility of finding better job opportunities. More specifically, only migration within the …
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Social Networks and Mental Health Outcomes: Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Experience
Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2019
cities can mitigate these adverse mental health effects. Using a unique longitudinal survey data of Rural-to-Urban Migration …
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Economic impact of STEM immigrant workers
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas - 2018
STEM-focused industries are critical to the innovation-driven economy. As many firms are running short of STEM workers, international immigrants are increasingly recognized as a potential for high-tech job recruitment. This paper studies STEM occupations in Sweden 2011–2015 and tests...
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Anti-Migration as a Threat to Internationalization? A Review of the Migration-Internationalization Literature
Hatzigeorgiou, Andreas; Lodefalk, Magnus - 2018
Does anti-migration sentiment threaten internationalization? One major pro-Brexit argument was that it would enable … more control over immigration. The most recent US presidential election also focused on immigration. Anti-migration … migration-trade nexus, there are few examples of policymakers highlighting the role of migration for internationalization. One …
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