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The struggle of becoming established in a deprived inner-city neighbourhood

May, David - 2003

The theory of established-outsider figurations developed by Norbert Elias is a useful tool for examining deprived neighbourhoods. The case of this paper is Dortmund Nordstadt in Germany, an old inner-city neighbourhood which from its early days has housed the newly arrived immigrants. Elias...

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On within-couple time allocation : gendered disparities in paid work and housework in Europe

Tverdostup, Maryna; Sabouniha, Alireza - 2024

This paper aims to pursue a deeper understanding of gendered within-couple allocation of time into paid work and … addition, even if it is approaching a gender-equal split, the withincouple division of housework barely passes the point at … aligns broadly with traditional theories of the household, yet the role of the 'doing-gender' hypothesis is non-negligible. …

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Cyclical dimensions of labour mobility after EU enlargement

Ahearnea, Alan; Brücker, Herbert; Darvasa, Zsolt; … - 2009

This paper explores the influence of the economic cycle on labour mobility within the EU, focusing on the likely impact of the present economic crisis. To do so, we use an econometrically calibrated simulation and a case study of Ireland. We find that, in the short run, the crisis is likely to...

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Emigration and wages : the EU enlargement experiment

Elsner, Benjamin - 2011

This paper studies the impact of a large emigration wave on real wages in the source country. Following EU enlargement in 2004, a large share of the workforce of the Central and Eastern Europe emigrated to Western Europe. Using data from Lithuania for the calibration of a factor demand model I...

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Migration, cultural diversity and innovation : a European perspective

Bosetti, Valentina; Cattaneo, Cristina; Verdolini, Elena - 2012

This paper analyses the effect of skilled migration on two measures of innovation, patenting and citations of scientific publications, in a panel of 20 European countries. Skilled migrants positively contribute to the knowledge formation in host countries as they add to the pool of skills in...

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Migration from Africa, the Middle East and European neighbouring countries to the EU : an augmented gravity modelling approach

Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021

The South-North migration corridor, i.e. migration flows to the EU from Africa, the Middle East and EU neighbouring countries in the East, have overtaken the East-West migration corridor, i.e. migration flows from Central and East European countries to the EU15 and the European Free Trade...

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Potential mobility from Africa, Middle East and EU neighbouring countries to Europe

Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael; Grieveson, Richard - 2021

Migration from Africa and the Middle East to the EU has intensified over the last two decades. Relative differences between developed EU and less developed African and Middle East countries have not declined that much and continue to drive mobility. Also, demographic trends show a strong...

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Interrelationships between human capital, migration and labour markets in the Western Balkans : an econometric investigation

Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021

The high outward mobility that has characterised the countries in the Western Balkan (WB) region over the past three decades is often seen as tightly linked to severe labour market imbalances and persistently low utilisation of human capital over time. To shed light on these issues, we estimate...

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Being on the frontline? : immigrant workers in Europe and the COVID-19 pandemic

Fasani, Francesco; Mazza, Jacopo - 2020

We provide a first timely assessment of the pandemic crisis impact on the labour market prospects of immigrant workers in Europe by proposing a novel measure of their exposure to employment risk. We characterize migrants' occupations along four dimensions related to the role of workers'...

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Employment effects of offshoring, technological change and migration in a group of Western European economies : impact on different occupations

Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2023

of all groups of workers and especially of craft workers. Increasing immigrant shares in the work forces showed strongly …

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