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Self-selection and earnings of emigrants from a welfare state
Poutvaara, Panu; Munk, Martin D.; Junge, Martin - 2009
redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We … analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the richest and most redistributive European Welfare States. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269304
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Individual attitudes towards immigrants: welfare-state determinants across countries
Facchini, Giovanni; Mayda, Anna Maria - 2006
relationships have the opposite signs in economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native population). Such …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267885
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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity: a bi-national study of immigrants
Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005
There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272326
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Do immigrants take the jobs of native workers?
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, … - 2009
In this paper, we focus on the short-run adjustments taking place at the workplace level when immigrants are employed. Specifically, we analyse whether individual native workers are replaced or displaced by the employment of immigrants within the same narrowly defined occupations at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271242
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Do foreign experts increase the productivity of domestic firms?
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob R.; Skaksen, Jan Rose - 2011
While most countries welcome (and some even subsidise) high-skilled immigrants, there is very limited evidence of their importance for domestic firms. To guide our empirical analysis, we first set up a simple theoretical model to show how foreign experts may impact on the productivity and wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286260
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Migration and imperfect labor markets: Theory and cross-country evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - 2012
We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare states. Institutions such as collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287680
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Migration, redistribution and the universal welfare model
Andersen, Torben M. - 2012
capturing the rationale and essence of the above-mentioned redistribution model and considers its sensitivity and robustness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283996
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Brain gain: claims about its size and impact on welfare and growth are greatly exaggerated
Schiff, Maurice - 2005
Based on static partial equilibrium analysis, the new brain drain literature argues that, by raising the return to education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, larger than the brain drain itself, and that such a net brain gain results in an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267439
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Labour market status and migration dynamics
Bijwaard, Govert E. - 2009
In this empirical paper we assess how labour market transitions and out- and repeated migration of immigrants are … in the number of migrants from the EU accession countries will lead to higher labour market and migration dynamics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269402
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Migration and Diversity : Human versus Social Capital
Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - 2004
migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social … natives. Trade and both migration solutions reduce inequality between the populations of the two countries by the same amount …. In addition, trade and migration are not equivalent if social capital is present: the highest welfare is obtained with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262028