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Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to test this hypothesis across various...
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with high-skilled immigrants with relatively few (1-5) or many (11+) years since migration. The relative responsiveness of … migration), whereas other groups of immigrants became particularly fluid during the Great Recession, such as those from new …
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, signifying widespread labor market hierarchies. While significant resources have been invested in migration and integration …
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The role of institutions in immigrant integration remains underexplored in spite of its essential significance for integration policies. This paper adopts the Varieties of Capitalism framework to study the institutional determinants of Immigrant-Native gaps in host labor markets. Using the EU...
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are not related to unemployment benefit generosity. This suggests that the so-called "welfare migration" debate is …
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This paper investigates how ethnic diversity, measured by the immigrants' countries of origin, influences the well-being of the host country. Using panel data from Germany for the period 1998 to 2012, we find a positive effect of ethnic diversity on the well-being of German citizens. To...
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with high-skilled immigrants with relatively few (1-5) or many (11+) years since migration. The relative responsiveness of … migration), whereas other groups of immigrants became particularly fluid during the Great Recession, such as those from new …
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Theory asserts that individuals' migration decisions depend more on their expectations about future income levels than …, by forming good economic prospects, has reduced emigration as predicted by theory. Our estimates show that migration … no link with migration patterns and this may be an important lesson for government policy. …
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, signifying widespread labor market hierarchies. While significant resources have been invested in migration and integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013460059
We analyze the long-term impact of the resettlement of the Sudetenland after World War II on residential migration … substantially lower local social capital in the resettled settlements that is likely to have caused higher residential migration …. This explanation is consistent with theoretical models of the impact of social capital on migration decisions. …
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