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Ethnic German migration since 1989 : results and perspectives
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
Among all European countries, Germany absorbs by far the largest number of immigrants. But to date, the German … economic situation in Germany deteriorated. Ethnic Germans are basically facing the same difficulties with social and economic … integration as foreigners. A majority of young Ethnic Germans have no cultural or language ties to Germany. Insufficient language …
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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification nased on nonparametric estimation
Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002
policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric …
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On the potential interaction between labour market institutions and immigration policies
Cigagna, Claudia; Sulis, Giovanni - 2015
Using data on migration flows for a sample of 15 OECD countries over the period 1980-2006, we analyse the effect of unemployment and labour institutions such as employment protection legislation, coverage of unemployment benefits, minimum wages, union power and tax wedge on migration flows. We...
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How immigration grease is affected by economic, institutional and policy contexts : evidence from EU labor markets
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2015
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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International immigration and labor regulation
Levai, Adam; Turati, Riccardo - 2024
The existing literature investigating the labor market impact of immigration assumes, implicitly or explicitly, that the law or labor regulation is exogenous to immigration. To test this assumption, we build a novel workers' protection measure based on 36 labor law variables that capture labor...
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Immigration in a high unemployment economy : the recent Danish experience
Pedersen, Peder J. - 2000
The purpose in this paper is to survey the course of immigration into Denmark and research and studies related to the problems encountered in this area. The first part of the paper describes the actual flows of migrants in the most recent decades. The directly job-related part of migration can...
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Illegal immigration and the shadow economy
Camacho, Carmen; Mariani, Fabio; Pensieroso, Luca - 2015
We build a general equilibrium model in which both illegal immigration and the size of the informal sector are endogenously determined. In this framework, we show that indirect policy measures such as tax reduction and detection of informal activities can be used as substitutes for border...
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The impact of temporary protected status on immigrants' labor market outcomes
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - 2014
The United States currently provides Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to more than 300,000 immigrants from selected countries. TPS is typically granted if dangerous conditions prevail in the home country due to armed conflict or a natural disaster. Individuals with TPS cannot be deported and are...
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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt : eine ökonomische Perspektive
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294532
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Optimal education policy and human capital accumulation in the context of brain drain
Djajić, Slobodan; Docquier, Frédéric; Michael, Michael S. - 2018
This paper revisits the question of how brain drain affects the optimal education policy of a developing economy. Our framework of analysis highlights the complementarity between public spending on education and students' efforts to acquire human capital in response to career opportunities at...
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