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High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe
Kahanec, Martin - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131933
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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union : An Overview
Kahanec, Martin - 2010
This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134811
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Unemployment Benefits and Immigration : Evidence from the EU
Giulietti, Corrado - 2011
immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates reveal the existence of a moderate correlation for non-EU … zero causal impact of UBS on immigration. All estimates for immigrants from EU origins indicate that flows within the EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118503
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How Do the Unemployed Search for a Job? Evidence from the EU Labour Force Survey
Bachmann, Ronald - 2012
Using harmonized micro data, this paper investigates the job search behaviour of the unemployed in Europe. The analysis focuses on the importance of individual and household characteristics in this context, as well as on cross-country differences in Europe. Our findings suggest that both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099811
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10 Years after : EU Enlargement, Closed Borders, and Migration to Germany
Elsner, Benjamin - 2013
We study how the EU enlargement in 2004 and the Great Recession in the late 2000s have shaped the scale and composition … Germans became narrower over time.Almost 10 years after EU enlargement, we re-assess the transitional arrangements, and argue … to study how effective migration within the EU is as an adjustment mechanism. Our data clearly show an increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088336
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Returning Home at Times of Trouble? Return Migration of EU Enlargement Migrants During the Crisis
Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2013
The eastern enlargements of the EU in 2004 and 2007 have stimulated the mobility of workers from the new EU8 and EU2 …, leading to a more efficient allocation of resources within the enlarged EU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088658
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Anonymous Job Applications in Europe
Krause-Pilatus, Annabelle - 2013
Numerous empirical studies find a substantial extent of discrimination in hiring decisions. Anonymous job applications have gained attention and popularity to identify and combat this form of discrimination. To test whether their intended effects result in practice, in several European countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088997
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An Expert Stakeholder's View on European Integration Challenges
Constant, Amelie F. - 2014
The standard approach of analyzing gaps in social and labor market outcomes of different ethnic groups relies on analysis of statistical data about the affected groups. In this paper we go beyond this approach by measuring the views of expert stakeholders involved in minority integration. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068832
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Pitfalls of Immigrant Inclusion into the European Welfare State
Kahanec, Martin - 2012
experts from organizations working on immigrant integration in the EU is analyzed using simple comparative statistical methods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112785
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Lessons from Migration after EU Enlargement
Kahanec, Martin - 2009
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 migrants in the EU15 remains smaller than that of non-EU27 migrants. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158614