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expectations about inflation and future growth. Migration plays a significant role to balance wages across regions and countries …
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While a growing literature has analyzed the effects of parental migration on the educational outcomes of children left …, parental migration seems to trigger changes in the roles and effects among children. However, it is primarily older sisters who … reduce hardship - in response to parental migration. …
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Using a large new dataset, we analyze the labor market performance of Portuguese workers in Germany. While previous work compares wages and characteristics of migrants only to those of the natives, we match the data also with an equivalent survey from the sending country. We find that Portuguese...
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Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country's labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...
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Migration is an unavoidable aspect of globalization. While full flexibility is politically unfeasible, the paper argues … for regulated openness. Migration in the age of globalization should be judged according to the labor market needs of the … might be limited by virtual migration through the Internet. …
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