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Nominal and real wage rigidity : does nationality matter?

Cabral, Sónia; Duarte, Cláudia - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 13, pp. 1-20

We assess the differences in downward nominal and real wage rigidity between natives and immigrants in Portugal, using a matched employer-employee database and the International Wage Flexibility Project (IWFP) methodology. This methodology estimates a notional or counterfactual distribution that...

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Immigrants from eastern partnership (EaP) countries in Spain

Farré, Lídia; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 1, pp. 1-28

) from the years 2000 to 2011, this paper analyzes how their employment situation evolves with time in Spain, the type of … sectors they work in, and their welfare use, including unemployment insurance receipt. We find that the employment rate of EaP … migrants is similar to that of the natives. This is because although they face an employment penalty upon arrival, they catch …

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Immigration and careers of European workers : effects and the role of policies

Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 2 (2013), pp. 1-26

In this paper we analyze the response of career, employment and wage of native Europeans to immigration. We then ask … flexible labor markets in a country are a key factor to have employment upgrading in response to immigration. … labor market. We find no evidence of an increased likelihood of non-employment or geographical mobility. We find that more …

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Retirement patterns of couples in Europe

Hospido, Laura; Zamarro, Gema - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 12, pp. 1-18

In this paper we study the retirement patterns of couples in a multi-country setting using data from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe. In particular we test whether women's (men's) transitions out of the labor force are directly related to the actual realization of their...

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Tradable Refugee-admission Quotas (TRAQs), the Syrian Crisis and the new European Agenda on Migration

Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 23, pp. 1-13

The Syrian Civil War gave rise to the largest refugee flight reaching Europe since the Yugoslavian wars in the 1990s. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled both to offer solutions to Syrian refugees and to efficiently allocate costs across...

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Does Italy represent an opportunity for temporary migrants from the eastern partnership countries?

Marchetti, Sabrina; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Venturini, … - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 8, pp. 1-20

The paper reviews the dynamics and characteristics of immigrant inflows to Italy from the EU’s Eastern Partnership countries. In particular, it compares Ukrainian and Moldovan migrants, which are the most numerous nationalities. Even though both groups show a feminisation of flows, high...

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Eastern partnership migrants in Germany : outcomes, potentials and challenges

Biavaschi, Costanza; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 7, pp. 1-20

Despite the ongoing dialogue on facilitating mobility between the European Union and the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, very little is known about the magnitude and characteristics of migration from these countries. We find that EaP migrants experience worse labor market outcomes than...

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Labour migration to the UK from Eastern partnership countries

Clark, Kenneth; Drinkwater, Stephen J. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 15, pp. 1-19

following changes to UK immigration policy and the onset of recession. The demographic profile of migrants from EaP countries is … similar to that of EUA8 migrants but employment rates have been much lower. A large proportion of migrants to the UK from EaP … migrants. Despite the potential for increased migration to fill skill gaps, immigration policies and attitudes to immigrants …

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Wage and occupational assimilation by skill level : migration policy lessons from Spain

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-20

What are the migration policy lessons that can be learned from the Spanish case? Unlike countries with a large tradition of receiving immigrants, in Spain having a high-school degree does not give immigrants an advantage in terms wage or occupational assimilation (relative to their native...

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The long-term earnings consequences of general vs. specific training of the unemployed

Stenberg, Anders; Westerlund, Olle - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 22, pp. 1-26

Training programs for the unemployed typically involve training specific skills in demand amongst employers. In 1997, Swedish unemployed could also choose general schooling at the upper secondary level. This offers a unique opportunity to assess the theoretically ambiguous long-term relative...

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