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Imperfect Mobility
Cai, Zhengyu - 2020
This study investigates why the strong form of the spatial equilibrium is weakly supported in the literature. Using a discrete choice model, it shows that the strong form of the spatial equilibrium is rarely observed because workers are imperfectly mobile from the perspective of researchers....
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Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations
Docquier, Frédéric - 2006
origin countries, it also induces positive effects through various channels such as remittances, return migration, diaspora … praise the unambiguous benefits of unskilled migration for developing countries, my analysis suggests that a limited but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779028
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Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility : A Theory
David, Quentin; Janiak, Alexandre; Wasmer, Etienne - 2021
In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of local social capital. Investing in local ties is rational when workers anticipate that they will not move to another region. Reciprocally, once local social capital is accumulated, incentives to...
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Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants
Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - 2023
In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers have monopsony power over undocumented workers because...
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Selective Migration and Economic Development : A Generalized Approach
Cha’Ngom, Narcisse; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, … - 2023
International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development … and human capital accumulation in a multi-country context. We then embed this migration-education nexus into a development … accounting framework to quantify the effects of migration on development and inequality. We find that selective emigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350135
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Expecting Brexit and UK Migration : Should I Go?
Di Iasio, Valentina; Wahba, Jackline - 2023
This paper examines the impact of the 2016 UK referendum and expecting Brexit on migration flows and net migration in … the UK. We employ a Difference-in-Differences strategy and compare EU migration to non-EU migration before and immediately …) migration inflows from the EU declined, (ii) emigration of EU migrants increased and (iii) net migration flows from EU countries …
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The Effect of the 2004 and 2007 EU Enlargement on the Spanish Labour Market
de la Rica, Sara - 2009
The 2004 and 2007 EU enlargement has led to a significant increase in the immigration flow to Spain. Individuals from the new-EU-12 countries accounted for no more than 10% of the whole Spanish immigrant population in 2004, but by 2008 they accounted for almost 20% of the total flow of...
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EU Enlargement Under Continued Mobility Restrictions : Consequences for the German Labor Market
Brenke, Karl - 2009
The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764319
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Labor Mobility and the Integration of European Labor Markets
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
to mobility is in promoting the integration of international workers in the European migration process, which can be … strengthened through circular migration. The European quot;blue cardquot; initiative and the opening of labor markets to foreign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764678
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Undocumented Worker Employment and Firm Survival
Brown, J. David - 2009
Do firms employing undocumented workers have a competitive advantage? Using administrative data from the state of Georgia, this paper investigates the incidence of undocumented worker employment across firms and how it affects firm survival. Firms are found to engage in herding behavior, being...
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