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Migration from Ukraine : Brawn or Brain? New Survey Evidence

Commander, Simon John - 2013

Ukraine in August – October 2011. We find that migrants are positively selected in terms of age and education. Yet, this is … explained by the absence of the conventional link between education and skills in Ukraine.To circumvent this problem, we compare …

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UK Migration Policy and Migration from Eastern Partnership Countries

Clark, Kenneth - 2013

This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK. Although inflows of migrant workers were relatively large in the mid-2000s, especially amongst Ukrainians, these have fallen following changes to UK immigration policy,...

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Temporary Labour Migration and Welfare at the New European Fringe : A Comparison of Five Eastern European Countries

Danzer, Alexander M. - 2009

and Ukraine after EU enlargement in 2004. Migration incidence, destination choices and migration determinants differ …

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In Search of Opportunities? The Barriers to More Efficient Internal Labor Mobility in Ukraine

Koettl, Johannes - 2014

Ukraine's economy lacks dynamism, and this is both the cause and the effect of people not moving across the regions … comparison with other countries. This paper examines the barriers that prevent workers from moving within Ukraine, using … Ukraine through addressing institutional bottlenecks and defines five key areas for improvement, including the population …

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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin (contributor); … - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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Immigration and national wages : clarifying the theory and the empirics

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2008

This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas (2003) we focus on national labor markets for workers of different skills and we enrich his methodology and refine previous estimates. We emphasize that a production function...

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Immigration and careers of European workers : effects and the role of policies

Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - 2014

In this paper we analyze the response of career, employment and wage of native Europeans to immigration. We then ask how individual country's policies affect these responses. We use data on 11 EU countries, over the period 1995-2001. We also use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by nationality...

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Illegal immigration and fiscal competition

Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu; Pinto, Santiago M. - 2014

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Immigration, offshoring and American jobs

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - 2010

How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...

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Managing migration through quotas : an option-theory perspective

Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2008

Recent European Legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), also by using immigration quotas. On the other hand, there is an increase of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008772378

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