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Migration, Trade and Income
Ortega, Francesc - 2013
This paper explores the relationship between openness to trade, immigration, and income per person across countries. To … distance (while controlling for country size). Since geography may affect income through other channels, we also control for … to immigration on long-run income per capita. In contrast, we are unable to establish an effect of trade openness on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083367
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The Role of Income and Immigration Policies in Attracting International Migrants
Ortega, Francesc - 2012
-migrants. Our estimates show that international migration flows are highly responsive to income per capita at destination. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104662
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Is the Minimum Wage a Pull Factor for Immigrants?
Giulietti, Corrado - 2011
This paper studies the impact of the minimum wage on immigration. A framework is presented in which inflows of immigrants are a function of the expected wage growth induced by the minimum wage. The analysis focuses on the US minimum wage increase of 1996 and 1997, using data from the Current...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131921
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High-Skilled Immigration Policy in Europe
Kahanec, Martin - 2011
Whether Europe will be able to stand up to its internal and external challenges crucially depends on its ability to manage its internal mobility and inflows of international migrants. Using a unique expert opinion survey, we document that Europe needs skilled migrants, and skill mismatch is to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131933
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Reservation Wages of First and Second Generation Migrants
Constant, Amelie F. - 2010
This paper analyzes the reservation wages of first and second generation migrants. Based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that reservation wages increase from first to second generation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134810
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Immigrant Over- and Under-Education : The Role of Home Country Labour Market Experience
Piracha, Matloob - 2010
The cause of immigrant education mismatch in the host country labour market might not necessarily be discrimination or imperfect transferability of human capital, as argued in previous studies. Immigrants who have gained professional experience in the home country in jobs below their education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136034
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The Impact of Ireland's Recession on the Labour Market Outcomes of its Immigrants
Barrett, Alan - 2010
In the mid 2000s Ireland experienced a large inflow of immigrants, partly in response to strong economic growth but also in response to its decision to allow full access to its labour market when EU expansion occurred in May 2004. Between 2004 and 2007, the proportion of non-nationals living in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137549
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Foreign Labour Migration and the Economic Crisis in the EU : Ongoing and Remaining Issues of the Migrant Workforce in Germany
Kim, Anna Myunghee - 2010
This paper provides an evaluation of the status of migrant workers in Germany amidst the global financial crisis. Findings of the study are drawn from the latest available data on the labour market performance of native-German and non-German migrant workers as well as other socioeconomic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139038
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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy : Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human capital with two dimensions of immigration policy:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118275
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Unemployment Benefits and Immigration : Evidence from the EU
Giulietti, Corrado - 2011
The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over the period 1993-2008 is used to test the hypothesis that unemployment benefit spending (UBS) is correlated with immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118503