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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902126
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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265004
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Migration in an enlarged EU: a challenging solution?
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as … analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271082
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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 blue card initiative and the opening of labor markets to foreign graduates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271088
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Occuptational choice across generations
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labor market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272271
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Self-Employment Dynamics Across the Business Cycle: Migrants Versus Natives
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004
Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment are absorbing states. However,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272276
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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance, and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2006
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272278
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Social Assimilation and Labor Market Outcomes of Migrants in China
Cai, Shu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and their adaption in the … migration process is likely to be quite different. The gap is closed by examining social assimilation and the effect on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012313442
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Social Identity and Labor Market Outcomes of Internal Migrant Workers
Cai, Shu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2024
international migration. Examining social identity and labor market outcomes in China, the country with the largest internal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014451099
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Ethnic minorities in the European Union: An overview
Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelica; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...
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