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We estimate whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market by comparing pre- and post …-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes - i.e. an upper-bound estimate - up to …
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The question of whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market is an important criterion for an … new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour market shocks. We find that recent migration flows have …
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We estimate whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market by comparing pre- and post …-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes – i.e. an upper-bound estimate – up to …
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This article investigates the macro-level drivers of adult-age language learning. We construct a new dataset that covers German language learning in 77 countries (including Germany) for 1992-2006. Fixed-effects regressions show that language learning in the EU is strongly associated with...
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The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe … identification, we exploit a historical episode in the Polish migration history to Germany before the fall of the Iron Curtain and … construct a shift-share instrument. Our results differ from findings for high-skilled migration to the United States, which is …
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local skill share and that both skill acquisition and migration play a role. We develop and quantify a spatial equilibrium … migration linkages between cities. Counterfactual experiments suggest that the growth in capital goods imports in China between …
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robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …
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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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Whilst migration has become a structural feature of most European countries, the integration of foreigners in the …
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