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EU enlargement and Ireland's labour market
Barrett, Alan - 2009
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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The working hours of immigrants in Germany: temporary versus permanent
Kahanec, Martin; Shields, Michael P. - 2010
Migration is often viewed as an investment decision. Temporary migrants can be expected to invest less in accumulating … human capital theory and a household production model of migration where migrants may be temporary by choice and not because …
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Portuguese Migrants in the German Labor Market: Performance and Self-Selection
Bauer, Thomas K.; Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Vogler, Michael; … - 1998
Using a large new dataset, we analyze the labor market performance of Portuguese workers in Germany. While previous work compares wages and characteristics of migrants only to those of the natives, we match the data also with an equivalent survey from the sending country. We find that Portuguese...
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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self- Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
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Welfare reform in European countries: a microsimulation analysis
Immervoll, Herwig; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, … - 2005
phaseout rates, the uniform redistribution policy is undesirable unless the redistributive tastes of the government are extreme …
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An evaluation of the tax-transfer treatment of married couples in European countries
Immervoll, Herwig; Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Kreiner, … - 2009
This paper presents an evaluation of the tax-transfer treatment of married couples in 15 EU countries using the EUROMOD microsimulation model. First, we show that many tax-transfer schemes in Europe feature negative jointness defined as a situation where the tax rate on one person depends...
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Egyptian men working abroad: Labor supply responses by the women left behind
Binzel, Christine; Assaad, Ragui - 2011
Female labor force participation has remained low in Egypt. This paper examines whether male international migration … find a decrease in wage work in both rural and urban areas. However, women living in rural areas and affected by migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278524
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Immigration, family responsibilities and the labor supply of skilled native women
Farré, Lídia; González Luna, Libertad; Ortega, Francesc - 2009
This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such as housekeeping and child or elderly care. As a result,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269385
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How do industries and firms respond to changes in local labor supply?
Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - 2011
In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...
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Intra-household labor supply, migration, and subsistence constraints in a risky environment: Evidence from rural El Salvador
Halliday, Timothy J. - 2010
We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy … that adverse agricultural productivity shocks increased both male migration to the US and the supply of male agricultural … labor within the household in El Salvador. In contrast, after damage sustained from the 2001 earthquakes, female migration …
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