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Job Quality Gaps between Migrant and Native Gig Workers : Evidence from Poland
Kowalik, Zuzanna; Lewandowski, Piotr; Kaczmarczyk, Pawel - 2023
The gig economy has grown worldwide, opening labour markets but raising concerns about precariousness. Using a tailored, quantitative survey in Poland, we study taxi and delivery platform drivers' working conditions and job quality. We focus on the gaps between natives and migrants, who...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348146
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Entrepreneurship, Education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution in Africa
Naudé, Wim - 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through … paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize. I then explore the opportunities and threats the 4IR pose for … Africa. Threats include job-losses and the re-shoring of manufacturing to advanced economies. Among the opportunities are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012952621
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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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Labour Market Impact of Large Scale Internal Migration on Chinese Urban 'Native' Workers
Meng, Xin - 2010
between rural-urban migration and urban native workers' labour market outcomes in Chinese cities. After controlling for the … adverse impact of migration on urban native labour market outcomes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136488
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Immigrant Networks and U.S. Bilateral Trade : The Role of Immigrant Income
Mundra, Kusum - 2010
This paper examines the role of immigrant networks on trade, particularly through the demand effect. First, we examine the effect of immigration on trade when the immigrants consume more of the goods that are abundant in their home country than the natives in a standard Heckscher-Ohlin model and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136947
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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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Post-Socialist International Migration : The Case of China-to-South Korea Ethnic Labour Migration
Kim, Anna Myunghee - 2010
This paper examines an atypical south-north labour migration that emerged in the post-socialist international migration … system: China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration. Over the past decade, South Korea has experienced an unprecedented …, this study reveals the underexplored economic dimension of ethnic migration in Northeast Asia. Empirical findings on this …
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