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-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed countries. We utilize free-movement within the EU to examine … the free migration regime and compare that to immigration into the EU from two other groups, developed and developing …
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The concentration of people with diverse socio-cultural backgrounds in particular geographic areas may boost the creation of new ideas, knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship, and economic growth. In this paper we measure the impact of the size, skills, and diversity of immigration on the...
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restrictions on the migrant sending countries. With EU enlargement in 2004, 1.2 million workers from Eastern Europe emigrated to …
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This paper explores the role of culture in determining divorce decisions by examining country of origin differences in divorce rates of immigrants in the United States. Because childhood-arriving immigrants are all exposed to a common set of US laws and institutions, we interpret relationships...
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With worldwide migration becoming increasingly prevalent in policy agendas over the past several decades, understanding the effects that migrants have on a host country's population continues to be an important research agenda. There is a large literature documenting the effects that migrants...
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The analysis of how the economic crisis in Europe has reshaped migration flows faces two challenges: (i) the confounding influence of correlated changes in the attractiveness of alternative destinations, and (ii) the role of rapidly changing expectations about the evolution of the economic...
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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 …
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Due to ageing population and low birth rates, the European Union (EU) will need to import foreign labour in the next … decades. In this context, the EU neighbouring countries (ENC) are the main countries of origin and transit of legal and … of labour force. The objective of this paper is to analyse past and future trends in ENC-EU bilateral migration …
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comparison to migrants from the new member states that joined the EU in 2004 (EUA8 countries). Migrants from the EaP countries …
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unexploited database (EU-Silc), we find no evidence that legal migrants, notably skilled migrants, are net recipients of transfers … dilemma facing Europe involves i. co-ordinating safety nets across the EU, ii. adopting explicitly selective migration …
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