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Run, graduate, run : internationally mobile students' reactions to changing political landscapes in Europe
Weisser, Reinhard A. - 2021
Over the last decades, Europe attracted an increasing number of internationally mobile students. The related influx of talent into European labour markets constituted an important factor to the knowledge economy. This research addresses the question whether changing political landscapes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012549105
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Identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants
Carillo, Maria R.; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, Tiziana - 2021
This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the host and home country have higher employment rates,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012392708
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Borderline disorder : (de facto) historical ethnic borders and contemporary conflict in Africa
Depetris-Chauvin, Emilio; Özak, Ömer - 2020
We explore the effect of historical ethnic borders on contemporary conflict in Africa. We document that both the intensive and extensive margins of contemporary conflict are higher close to historical ethnic borders. Exploiting variations across artificial regions within an ethnicity's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306383
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Erasmus exchange program : a matter of (relatively) older students
Carlsson, Magnus; Fumarco, Luca; Gibbs, B. G. - 2020
This study contributes to the literature on long-term effects of relative age (i.e. age differences between classmates in compulsory school) by examining tertiary education outcomes. We investigate whether there is evidence of relative age effects on university students enrolled in the Erasmus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012249923
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Challenged by migration : Europe's options
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the … that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes with a crisis of European institutions in general. Migration and labor … survive or collapse even if it solves its migration challenge. But it will most likely collapse, if it fails to solve the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012111774
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Ability drain : size, impact, and comparison with brain drain under alternative immigration policies
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2017
) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h), and productive human …, and b) the 'vetting' system (VS) which accounts for s (e.g., US H-1B program). Findings are: i) Migration reduces (raises …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112999
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Immigration, integration, and the informal economy in OECD countries
Ben Atta, Oussama; Chort, Isabelle; Senne, Jean-Noël - 2022
Elgin and Oztunali (2012) combined with migration data from the OECD Interna- tional Migration Database and data on asylum …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013450696
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Are asylum seekers more likely to work with more inclusive labor market access regulations?
Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois; Uhlig, Roman - 2019
In the face of recent refugee migration, early integration of asylum seekers into the labor market has been proposed as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149227
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The impact of immigration and integration policies on immigrant-native labor market hierarchies
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2022
, signifying widespread labor market hierarchies. While significant resources have been invested in migration and integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013450772
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Occupational regulation, institutions, and migrants' labor market outcomes
Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022
We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their representation among licensed, certified, and unionized workers. We provide evidence of a dual role of labor market institutions, which both screen workers based on unobservable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818455