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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...
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countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has … effects of global migration during the past half century. That evidence falsifies most of the core predictions of the old … model. The economics of migration will regain vitality and relevance by discarding and replacing its outworn paradigm. …
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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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For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host … country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global … economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably …
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Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country?s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...
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immigrant adjustment model, which incorporates both the transferability of immigrant skills and selectively in migration. The …
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Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...
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continent's population. However, rates of migration across European countries remain considerably lower than interstate … migration in the United States, and spatial variation in terms of unemployment or income levels is larger. We document patterns … of migration in Europe, which include a sizable migration from east to west in the last twenty years. An analysis of …
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opening up for labour migration from non-EES/EU countries in December 2008. The changes have led to increased labour … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …
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Using longitudinal data on the universe of workers in Denmark during the period 1991-2008 we track the labor market outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous identification strategies by considering immigrants...
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