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We take advantage of a major compulsory school reform in Turkey to provide novel evidence on the causal effect of education on both the incidence and timing of internal migration. In addition, for the first time in literature, we provide causal effects of education on migration by reason for...
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mainly from Central Eastern Europe. This study summarizes and comparatively evaluates what we know about mobility in an … enlarged Europe to date. The pre-enlargement fears of free labor mobility proved to be unjustified. No significant detrimental … their young and skilled labor force, but free labor mobility has relieved them of some redundant labor and the associated …
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This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic …. However, internal European barriers to mobility are difficult to break through. An improved transparency of the European labor … market, a greater command of languages and a standardization of the social security system can strengthen mobility. The key …
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. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape of global talent mobility, which is both asymmetric and rising in …
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mobility of workers in reducing child labor in disadvantaged households through changes in the local labor market …
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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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information from focus group discussions and expert surveys. It also offers recommendations for creating greater labor mobility in …
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studied effect on occupational mobility – how the job in the home country after returning compares to the job held before … migration. The effect of temporary migration on occupational mobility is analysed using unique data from an Estonian online job … positive effect of temporary migration on upward occupational mobility and in some groups, such as females, the effect was …
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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 mobility and return migration patterns.We use a unique multi …
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work health risks. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey, we find that, on average, immigration leads to a reallocation of UK-born workers towards jobs characterized by...
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