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Immigration and the distribution of incomes
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013
Immigration may impact income distribution both by affecting the skill composition of a country's residents, and, by changing relative factor supplies, its relative factor prices. We provide some background evidence on compositional factors but focus primarily on factor prices. We first consider...
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Brexit and foreign students in gravity
Davies, Ronald B.; Specht, Lena S. - 2024
This paper examines the impact of Brexit on international student migration. In a structural gravity model, we estimate student migration between 69 countries for counterfactual scenarios in which the United Kingdom leaves the European Union one year before the referendum. This exercise reveals...
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Brain drain in the age of mass migration : does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity?
Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - 2012
-Bond approaches. We confirm the Roy-Borjas model of migrant self-selection. Moreover, we find that countries like Germany and UK …
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Brexit - balancing trade and mobility
Forslid, Rikard; Nyberg, Sten - 2017
Control over borders and access to the common market are key issues in the Brexit negotiations. We explore a sequential model, where the UK can commit to mobility, and the EU may constrain trade to dissuade future secession, or to punish the UK. The model highlights the importance of whether the...
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Industry and identity : the migration linkage between economic and cultural change in 19th century Britain
Fouka, Vasiliki; Serlin, Theo - 2024
How does economic modernization affect group identity? Modernization theory emphasizes how labor migration led to the adoption of common identities. Yet economic development may reduce incentives to emigrate, preserving local cultures. We study England and Wales during the Second Industrial...
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Eastern enlargement of the EU : jobs, investment and welfare in present member countries
Heijdra, Ben J.; Keuschnigg, Christian; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2002
model with search unemployment of high- and low-skilled labor, we simulate the effects of enlargement on Germany finding …
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The threat to the German welfare state
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2000
Germany is in a dilemma. Low wage competition via product and factor markets increases the demands on the welfare state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781597
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EU enlargement, migration, and lessons from German unification
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999
The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later reversed. As the migration pattern chosen by market forces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781677
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The social integration of international migrants: evidence from the networks of Syrians in Germany
Bailey, Michael; Johnston, Drew M.; Koenen, Martin; … - 2022
We use de-identified data from Facebook to study the social integration of Syrian migrants in Germany, a country that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013174171
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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024
We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We … to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The analysis uses administrative as well as survey data. The results … suggest that East Germans faced significant initial earnings disadvantages in West Germany, even conditional on age and …
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