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. For this purpose, we briefly review the Spanish socio-economic institutional background, as well as its migration policy …
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states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor market with more than half a billion people … states unevenly.This chapter studies whether and how east-west migration flows in an enlarged EU responded to institutional … and economic factors. We first develop a simple framework of adjustment through migration of workers between labor markets …
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hire more workers. However, the emerging skills shortages may constrain firm growth. Thus the transition economies face a …
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This paper studies whether migration policy, besides managing a country's population size, is a suitable tool to … influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late …-education, occupational downgrading, and (self-reported) use of skills for male immigrants, who account for about 75% of the sample, while …
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The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...
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Ireland, along with Sweden and the UK, allowed full access to its labour market to the citizens of the accession countries when the EU enlarged in May 2004. Given the limited number of countries that opened up and the rapid pace of economic growth in Ireland around 2004, a significant inflow was...
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This paper shows that specialized education reduces workers' mobility and hence their ability to cope with economic changes. We illustrate this point using labor force data from two countries having experienced important macroeconomic turbulence; a large economy with rigid labor markets, Poland,...
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and skills than those expected from their educational qualifications. Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to …
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. Determinants of migration and return, as well as selection issues are discussed. Post-enlargement migrants from all three countries … things equal, and human capital became increasingly less pro-migration over time. Return migrants differ from all movers in … many ways and, in particular, are more educated. Although brain drain was not a feature of post-accession Baltic migration …
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in English and labour market outcomes among humanitarian migrants. Having better general or speaking skills in English is … speaking skills has been the least improved domain for humanitarian migrants' who have participated in an English training …
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