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Sizing it Up : Labor Migration Lessons of the EU Enlargement to 27

Constant, Amelie F. - 2011

While economists were pointing out the advantages of the EU enlargement, politicians and policymakers were raising … grave concerns about the significant political and economic differences between the newcomer states (EU12) and the "old … Europe" of EU15. The major point of apprehension was related to the labor markets. Visceral fear rendered more than one in …

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The European Crisis and Migration to Germany : Expectations and the Diversion of Migration Flows

Bertoli, Simone - 2013

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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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...

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Brainy Africans to Fortress Europe : For Money or Colonial Vestiges?

Constant, Amelie F. - 2009

Economic reasons along with cultural affinities and the existence of networks have been the main determinants explaining migration flows between home and host countries. This paper reconsiders these approaches combined with the gravity model and empirically tests the hypothesis that ex-colonial...

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Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas (Traqs), the Syrian Crisis and the New European Agenda on Migration

Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas - 2015

The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled both to offer solutions to Syrian refugees and to efficiently allocate costs across...

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Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy

Moraga, Jesús Fernández-Huertas - 2014

The current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas …

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Do Processing Times Affect the Distribution of Asylum Seekers Across Europe?

Bertoli, Simone; Brücker, Herbert; Moraga, Jesús … - 2022

More than 3 million asylum seekers arrived into Europe between 2014 and 2016, and we analyze the role of destination-specific policy measures in shaping their location choices. We bring to the data a gravity equation that reflects the uncertainty that asylum seekers face, concerning the chances...

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Micro and Macro Determinants of Health : Older Immigrants in Europe

Constant, Amelie F. - 2015

We study the health determinants of immigrant men and women over the age of fifty, in Europe, and compare them to natives. We utilize the unique Survey of Health Aging and Retirement (SHARE) and augmented it with macroeconomic information on the 22 home countries and 16 host countries. Using...

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Attitudes Towards Immigrants, Other Integration Barriers, and Their Veracity

Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021

The paper studies opinions and attitudes towards immigrants and minorities and their interactions with other barriers to minorities' economic integration. Specifically, we consider the minority experts' own perceptions about these issues, the veracities and repercussions of unfavorable attitudes...

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