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Characteristics and Determinants of Internal Labor Mobility in Ukraine
Kupets, Olga - 2012
Over the past 20 years Ukraine experienced fundamental structural changes due to transition to a market economy and … in the literature on patterns of internal labor mobility in Ukraine, its main characteristics and potential for reducing …; third chapter provides an overview of the available data sources on internal labor mobility in Ukraine, quantifies internal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248042
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Manpower export to the Middle East : the impact of remittances at the household level in Bangladesh and Pakistan
Khuda, Barkat E. - 1982
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000721837
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Migrant workers in Victoria : perceptions of barriers and change
Turpin, Tim - 1986
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003726036
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Migration in an enlarged EU : a challenging solution?
Kahanec, Martin (contributor);  … - 2008
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union were unprecedented in a number of economic and policy aspects. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as well as sending countries in three broader areas: labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793104
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The role of remittances in migration decision : evidence from Turkish migration
Akkoyunlu, Sule (contributor);  … - 2007
In this study we analyse the impact of workers' remittances on the decision to migrate by means of cointegration analysis. In traditional migration theories, especially in human capital models, the decision to migrate is based upon comparison of expected future incomes in the sending and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003471764
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Gender, transnational networks and remittances : evidence from Germany
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2010
Remittances from Germany are substantial. Cross-border transfers to family and friendship networks outside Germany are not only made by foreigners. Many naturalized migrants send money home as well. Here, we focus on international networks and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the...
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Returns to migration, education, and externalities in the European Union
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Tselios, Vassilis - 2010
Relatively little attention has been paid to the role that externalities play in determining the pecuniary returns to migration. This paper addresses this gap, using microeconomic data for more than 100,000 individuals living in the European Union (EU) for the period 1994-2001 in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008702098
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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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Circular migration : counts of exits and years away from the host country
Constant, Amelie (contributor);  … - 2007
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