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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams
Schmidt, Christoph M.; Fertig, Michael - 2021
Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...
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New Labour? The Impact of Migration from Central and Eastern European Countries on the UK Labour Market
Lemos, Sara; Portes, Jonathan - 2021
The UK was one of only three countries that granted free movement of workers to accession nationals following the enlargement of the European Union in May 2004. The resulting large, rapid and concentrated migration inflow can be seen as a natural experiment that arguably corresponds closely to...
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The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy
Becker, Sascha O. - 2011
Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the...
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Ethnicity and Gender in the Labour Market in Central and South East Europe
O'Higgins, Niall - 2013
The Roma are both the largest 'minority' ethnic group in Central and South Eastern Europe and the one which suffered most from transition to the market. Still today, nearly forty years after the introduction of the EU's 1975 Discrimination Directive and with the end of the 'Roma Decade'...
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To Europe or Not to Europe? Migration and Public Support for Joining the European Union in the Western Balkans
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2019
For decades, countries aspiring to join the European Union (EU) have been linked to it through migration. Yet little is known about how migration affects individual support for joining the EU in prospective member states. We explore the relationship between migration and support for EU accession...
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'It's Not that I'm a Racist', it's that They are Roma : Roma Discrimination and Returns to Education in South Eastern Europe
O'Higgins, Niall - 2015
This paper uses a unique survey of Roma and non-Roma in South Eastern Europe to evaluate competing explanations for the poor performance of Roma in the labour market. The analysis seeks to identify the determinants of educational achievement, employment and wages for Roma and non-Roma. LIML...
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Where Are the Real Bottlenecks?Evidence from 20,000 Firms in 60 Countries aboutthe Shadow Costs of Constraints to Firm Performance
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark; Seabright, Paul - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth offirms. We interpret managers´ answers to survey questions on the extent to which variousaspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring theshadow cost of...
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Norms, Culture and Local Infrastructure : Evidence from a Decentralised Economy
Pal, Sarmistha - 2010
Culture as reflected in social and religious norms may be pivotal to social organization in a decentralised economy where local authorities are responsible for the provision of local public goods. We distinguish between individualist and collectivist cultures to argue that collectivist culture...
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Investment Climate and Employment Growth : The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations Across Firms
Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pages, Carmen - 2021
, business regulations, corruption, and to a lesser extent, infrastructure bottlenecks in explaining patterns of job creation at … face greater interruptions in infrastructure services. Larger firms spend significantly more time dealing with officials … growth of all firms, particularly micro and small firms. On the other hand, corruption and poor access to infrastructure …
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Infrastructure Grants and the Performance of Microenterprises
Chaurey, Ritam - 2018
We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …
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