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Tax Incentives for High Skilled Migrants : Evidence from a Preferential Tax Scheme in the Netherlands
Timm, Lisa; Giuliodori, Massimo; Muller, Paul - 2022
immigrants. We study a preferential tax scheme for foreigners in the Netherlands, which introduced an income threshold for …
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Generating Legitimacy for Labor Market and Welfare State Reforms : The Role of Policy Advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden
Eichhorst, Werner; Wintermann, Ole - 2021
structured and to what it extent it could influence actual policy-making in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden over the last …
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Global Talent Flows
Pekkala Kerr, Sari - 2016
The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...
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Flight of the H-1b : Inter-Firm Mobility and Return Migration Patterns for Skilled Guest Workers
Depew, Briggs - 2013
Critics of the H-1B program for high-skilled workers argue that the program restricts immigrant job mobility and lacks a vehicle for adjusting the number of visas during a recession. We study the job mobility of highly-skilled Indian IT guest workers and provide new evidence on their inter-firm...
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Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market : Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007
Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important … employment and tenured job rate remains large for the Netherlands, while the standardized gap in the job prestige score remains …
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Have Labour Market Reforms at the Turn of the Millennium Changed Job Durations of the New Entrants? A Comparative Study for Germany and Italy
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2009
job opportunities and job stability. This paper addresses this issue using administrative longitudinal data for Germany …-off is not confirmed by the results. In Germany, men have experienced an increase in employment stability over time, mated …
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What Hides Behind the German Labor Market Miracle? Unemployment Insurance Reforms and Labor Market Dynamics
Hartung, Benjamin - 2018
A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor market dynamics. We revisit this old question studying the German Hartz reforms. On average, lower separation rates explain 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact...
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How Immigration Grease is Affected by Economic, Institutional and Policy Contexts : Evidence from EU Labor Markets
Guzi, Martin - 2015
Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to test this hypothesis across various...
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Active Labor Market Programs : Employment Gain or Fiscal Drain?
Brown, Alessio J.G. - 2012
This paper provides a new perspective by classifying active labor market programs (ALMPs) depending on their main objectives and their relevance and cost-effectiveness during normal times, during a crisis, and during recovery. We distinguish ALMPs that provide: (i) incentives for retaining...
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On the Potential Interaction between Labour Market Institutions and Immigration Policies
Cigagna, Claudia - 2015
Using data on migration flows for a sample of 15 OECD countries over the period 1980-2006, we analyse the effect of unemployment and labour institutions such as employment protection legislation, coverage of unemployment benefits, minimum wages, union power and tax wedge on migration flows. We...
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