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Bénassy, Jean-Pascal; Brézis, Elise S. - 2011

endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some …

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The effects of international migration on native workers' unionization in Austria

Antón, José-Ignacio; Böheim, René; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2016

We analyze the effects of increased immigration of foreign workers on the unionization rates of native workers in Austrian firms over the period 2002-2012. Our results suggest that lower union density of natives' in firms with more foreign workers is driven not by natives leaving unions, but by...

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Migrants, ethnicity and strategic assimilation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2006

Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers to trade such as information costs, risk, and uncertainty by building trust and by substituting for the difficulty of enforcing contracts internationally. We study networks which emerge from the interaction (i) between migrants and...

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Migrant networks and destination choice: Evidence from moves across Turkish provinces

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Duman, Erkan - 2021

This paper estimates effects of birth place migration networks and other location attributes on destination choices of … internal migrants conditional on migration. We also study heterogeneity in the role of these factors for migrant types who … differ by skill group, age at migration, and reason of migration. We use data on male migrants from three rounds of Turkish …

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Employment effects of language training for unemployed immigrants

Lang, Julia - In: Journal of Population Economics 35 (2021) 2, pp. 719-754

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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Long-term benefits from temporary migration: Does the gender of the migrant matter?

DeSilva, Sanjaya - 2013

the long-term impact of temporary labor migration. We use a propensity score matching (PSM) framework to compare … outcomes. Our results show that households that send women abroad are relatively poor and utilize migration to catch up with …

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Labour market programmes and geographical mobility: migration and commuting among programme participants and openly unemployed

Lindgren, Urban; Westerlund, Olle - 2003

We study migration and commuting among participants in labour market programmes and individuals in open unemployment … the relatively lower probability of migration. Hence, our results indicate that different labour market programmes are … entity, we find interregional commuting to be relatively more important than migration as a means of geographical labour …

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Labor market integration of low-educated refugees: RCT evidence from an ambitious integration program in Sweden

Dahlberg, Matz; Egebark, Johan; Vikman, Ulrika; Özcan, … - 2020

This paper evaluates an ambitious and newly designed program for increased integration in Sweden. The purpose of the program is to help newly arrived, low-educated refugees into employment. The program includes four main components: (1) intensive initial language training, (2)work practice under...

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Was Dick Whittington Taller Than Those He Left Behind? Anthropometric Measures, Migration and the Quality of Life in Early Nineteenth Century London

Humphries, Jane; Leunig, Tim - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

explanatory variable in the analysis of migration. Although correlated with other variables that are routinely used in …

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Firm Migration and Stock Returns

Puopolo, Giovanni W. - Finrisk - 2009

This paper studies the asset pricing implications of a general equi-librium model in which real investment is reversible at a cost. Firmsface higher costs in contracting than in expanding their capital stockand decide to invest when their productive capital is scarce relativeto the overall...

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