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The impact of Arab Spring on hiring and separation rates in the Tunisian labour market
Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - 2015
This paper analyses the hiring and separation rates in Tunisia before and after the Arab Spring of 2011. Several models … presence of continued risk factors in Tunisia's labour market resulting from the global financial crisis in 2008 and the Arab … separation decisions remained present in Tunisia's labour market. In addition, the paper looks at various social issues such as …
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New evidence on mobility and wages of the young and the old
Hansen, Jörgen; Lkhagvasuren, Damba - 2015
We present new evidence on the wage and mobility of young and old workers, which is difficult to explain using standard human capital theory. Instead, we propose a simple dynamic extension of the Roy model, where worker migration and wages are jointly determined at the individual level....
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The economics of internal migration : advances and policy questions
Jia, Ning; Molloy, Raven S.; Smith, Christopher L.; … - 2022
We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing on internal migration in the U.S. We begin by describing approaches to modelling individuals' migration decisions and equilibrium outcomes across local areas. Next, we summarize evidence regarding the impact of migration on...
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Earnings assimilation of post-reunification East German migrants in West Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Sauer, Irakli - 2024
We investigate the wage assimilation of East Germans who migrated to West Germany after reunification (1990-1999). We compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants to West Germany who arrived at the same time. The...
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Do foreigners replace native immigrants? : evidence from a panel cointegration analysis
Brücker, Herbert; Fachin, Stefano; Venturini, Alessandra - 2009
This paper examines the impact of the immigration of foreigners on domestic labour mobility. Since David Card's seminal study on the regional labour market impact of the Mariel Boatlift it is controversial whether domestic labour mobility equilibrates economic conditions across cities and...
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Costs and benefits of labour mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries country study : Italy
Marchetti, Sabrina; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Venturini, … - 2013
Migrants from the Eastern Partnership Countries: Moldova, Ukraine, Belarus, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan has increased in the last ten years. Two different patterns are detected among the most important groups: Ukrainian and Moldovan. The first is mainly composed by women with a temporary...
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Full employment : a distant dream for Europe
Gill, Indermit Singh; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - 2013
Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous distractions from real problems that constitute imperatives for structural reform. There are...
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Is a policy of free movement of workers sustainable?
Picard, Pierre M.; Worrall, Timothy - 2014
This paper studies the costs and benefits of the adoption of the policy of free movement for workers. For the countries to agree on uncontrolled movement of workers, the short run costs must be outweighed by the long term benefits that result from better labor market flexibility and income...
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How to improve worker-firm matching: evidence from a temporary foreign worker market
Cho, Yoonyoung; Lee, Soohyung - 2021
This paper investigates the role of worker-firm matching algorithms in accounting for early job separation rates. For this purpose, we examine Korea's temporary foreign worker program in which the government classifies firms by priority levels and matches them with foreign workers based on their...
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Migration and labor market integration in Europe
Dorn, David; Zweimüller, Josef - 2021
The European labor market allows for the border-free mobility of workers across 31 countries that cover most of the continent's population. However, rates of migration across European countries remain considerably lower than interstate migration in the United States, and spatial variation in...
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