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Proficiency in the host country’s language is an important factor for the successful labor market integration of immigrants. In this study, I analyze the effects of a language training program for professional purposes on the employment opportunities of participants in Germany. I apply an...
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the early 1990s has already reduced the population. On top of this, there is the migration of the work force - most of the … migration rate, the mortality and birth rates, the unemployment rate, the real earnings, the secondary and tertiary education …
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This empirical study investigates the Tiebout-Tullock hypothesis as it might have applied to net domestic state in-migration … rates over the period 1990 through 1999. It appears that the net state in-migration rate has been directly related to the …-of-life variables reflecting violent crime rates and sunnier climates, also seem to be significant determinants of the net state in-migration …
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This article uses matched employer-employee data for the State of Georgia to examine workers' earnings experience through the information technology (IT) sector's employment boom of the mid-1990's and bust in the early 2000s. The results show that even after controlling for pre-boom individual...
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Variations between the diverse pension systems in the member states of the European Union hamper labour market mobility, across country borders but also within the countries of the European Union. From a macroeconomic perspective, and in the light of demographic pressure, this paper argues that...
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investments, reduced unemployment and increased labor migration. In the paper the system dynamics model, which describes …; import, its relation to internal producing; and migration processes are considered. Model functioning is measured considering …
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This paper presents a model of migration in which migration decisions are made with incomplete information on the labor … destination can bring about differences in economic outcomes related to migration, such as the migration propensity and the return … to migration. The implications of the model show the conditions under which information positively and negatively affects …
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Since 2002, the British Government department responsible for immigration, the Home Office, has claimed immigrants pay £2-5bn more in tax than they withdraw from the public purse. The workings behind this figure omit the cost of the additional infrastructure investments that immigrants...
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This edited collection of migration papers would like to emphasise the acute need for migration related study and … research in Romania. At this time, migration and mobility are studied as minor subjects in Economics, Sociology, Political … Sciences and European Studies only (mostly at post-graduate level). We consider that Romanian universities need more ‘migration …
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British cities are becoming more culturally diverse, with migration a main driver. Is this growing diversity good for … urban economies? This paper explores, using a new 16-year panel of UK cities. Over time, net migration affects both local …
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