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High-skilled immigration policy in Europe

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011

Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to...

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Labor mobility and the integration of European labor markets

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009

This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...

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Visas and work permits : possible global negotiating initiatives

Ng, Chi-Yung (contributor); Whalley, John (contributor) - 2005

We discuss global options for initiatives intended to ameliorate adverse impacts of visa and work permit systems used by national governments around the world. We first describe and document some of their effects, noting the relative lack of other research work on these issues. We then discuss...

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European labour mobility : challenges and potentials

Zimmermann, Klaus F. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

European Union economies are pressed by (i) a demographic change that induces population ageing and a decline of the workforce, and (ii) a split labour market that is characterized by high levels of unemployment for low -skilled people and a simultaneous shortage of skilled workers. This lack of...

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Give me your tired and your poor : impact of a large-scale amnesty program for undocumented refugees

Bahar, Dany; Ibáñez, Ana María; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2020

Between 2014 and 2020 over 1.8 million refugees fled from Venezuela to Colombia as a result of a humanitarian crisis, many of them without a regular migratory status. We study the short- to medium-term labor market impacts in Colombia of the Permiso Temporal de Permanencia program, the largest...

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Legalization and long-term outcomes of immigrant workers

Deiana, Claudio; Giua, Ludovica; Nisticò, Roberto - 2024

This paper establishes a new fact about immigration policies: legalization has long-term effects on formal employment of undocumented immigrants and their assimilation. We exploit the broad amnesty enacted in Italy in 2002 together with rich survey data collected in 2011 on a representative...

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Zum wirtschaftspolitischen Reformschritt der Ukraine und zur Konditionalität der westlichen Hilfe

Thießen, Ulrich - 2000

Die Rezession hielt in der Ukraine seit Beginn der Transformation an. Gleichzeitig zeigen Indikatoren für den … ordnungspolitischen Transformationsfortschritt, daß die Ukraine zu der Gruppe weniger östlicher Transformationsländer gehört, die einen … Charakteristika der makroökonomischen Entwicklung in der Ukraine während der Transformation zu bewerten. Es gibt außerdem einen …

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Options for transporting Russian gas to Western Europe : a game-theoretic simulation analysis

Chollet, Andreas; Meinhart, Berit; Hirschhausen, … - 2001

transiting countries, namely Ukraine and Belarus. The development of a new transit corridor through Belarus (the Yamal …-Europe pipeline), depriving Ukraine of its former monopoly, has modified the situation profoundly. The thrust of the paper is an … analysis of the strategies that Ukraine and Belarus may pursue in transiting Russian gas: non-cooperative duopoly, cooperative …

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Crimea and punishment : the impact of sanctions on Russian and European economies

Cholodilin, Konstantin Arkadʹevič; Netšunajev, Aleksei - 2016

The conflict between Russia and Ukraine that started in March 2014 resulted in bilateral economic sanctions imposed by …

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Mining matters : natural resource extraction and local business constraints

Haas, Ralph de; Poelhekke, Steven - 2016

We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight resource-rich countries. We find that with the presence of active mines, the business environment in the immediate vicinity (20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints...

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