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workforce, and (ii) a split labour market that is characterized by high levels of unemployment for low-skilled people and a … attracts skilled foreign workers will vitalize the labour market, foster growth and increase demand for unskilled native …
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but changed the composition of the immigrants, (iii) any negative effects in the labour market on wages or employment are … strongly attached to the labour market, and (vi) they are quite unlikely to be among welfare recipients. These findings point …
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The accumulation of the human capital stock plays a key role to explain the macroeconomic performance across regions. However, despite the strong theoretical support for this claim, empirical evidence has been not very convincing, probably because of the low quality of the data. This paper...
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market, a greater command of languages and a standardization of the social security system can strengthen mobility. The key …
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The Eastern enlargement of the EU was an institutional impetus to the migration potential in Europe. While the overall numbers of migrants from the new member states in the EU15 increased between 2003 and 2007, this increase was distributed unevenly among countries. The proportion of these...
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the German labor market since EU enlargement. Unlike other EU countries, Germany has not immediately opened up its labor … market for immigrants from the new member states. Nevertheless, our analysis documents a substantial inflow and suggests that …
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policy and reform effort on the one hand and the emergence of intra-Euro area divergences on the other. As a first step, we … prevailed until some months ago, can also manifest themselves in asset price inflation, notably in the housing market. When … are now appearing within the Euro area which threaten its long-term cohesiveness. The most manifest example of this threat …
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With globalization, the size of migration and the value of ethnicity is rising. Also Cyprus undergoes a strong process of change while experiencing large inflows of migration. The paper investigates the challenges and the potentials of migration from a European Union perspective. It advocates...
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barriers to social and labor market inclusion of immigrants in the European Union. The data from an online primary survey of … less negatively, barriers to immigrant labor market inclusion identified include language and human capital gaps, a lack of … respect to a number of characteristics of respondents and their organizations. -- ethnic minorities ; migration ; labor market …
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Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to...
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