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An Empirical Analysis of Migratory Flows to the United States
Fullerton Jr., Thomas M.; Galan, Felipe I.; Smith, Wm. Doyle - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The decision by economic migrants to leave their country of origin for the purpose of employment and to improve quality of life is generally regarded as an investment decision. Real or expected income differentials between the source and the host country and the possibilities of being employed...
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Labour Market Segmentation, Clusters, Mobility and Unemployment Duration with Individual Microdata
Álvarez de Toledo, Pablo; Núñez, Fernando; Usabiaga, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
labour market. Thirdly, we propose a measure of mobility based on our similarity measure, and estimate a regression model … that relates mobility to worker and job characteristics and to the economic cycle. Finally, these tools are included in an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260043
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“Better Safe than Sorry” - Individual Risk-free Pension Schemes in the European Union - Macroeconomic Benefits, the Mobile Working Citizen’s Perspective and Why Nots
Peeters, Marga - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Variations between the diverse pension systems in the member states of the European Union hamper labour market mobility … accounts. This would have macroeconomic benefits and provide a solid pension provision that can enhance mobility, instead of …
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Analysis of Pull-Factor Determinants of Filipino International Migration
Deluna, Roperto Jr; Darius, Artigo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper was conducted to examine the pull-factor determinants of Filipino international migration. This study employed Ordinary Least Square (OLS) estimation of gravity model using panel data consisting of 27 countries of destinations from 2007 to 2011. Results of the study revealed that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112462
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African brain drain and its impact on source countries: What do we know and what do we need to know?
Capuano, Stella; Marfouk, Abdeslam - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
While there appears to be deep and growing concern for the brain drain from Africa, lack of adequate data has so far prevented a comprehensive analysis of its magnitude and its impact on source countries. Using original datasets on international migration, this paper addresses both issues. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113254
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Romania and the new economy of migration: costs, decision, networks, development
Silasi, Grigore; Simina, Ovidiu Laurian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
In some earlier studies, as a response to the media debate during the hot summer of 2006, regarding Romania’s emigration as following the accession to the EU, we were saying that the fear of mass migration from Romania was not justified. Romania is not only a gateway for the East-West...
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European Union Economy System Dynamic Model Development
Skribans, Valerijs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
The formation of the European Union (EU) is the one of the biggest political – economic events of the last 50 years. The aim of this study is to develop EU economy functioning system dynamic model. Main research method is system dynamics. General scheme of EU economy system dynamic model is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259562
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Migration, Mobility and Human Rights at the Eastern Border of the European Union - Space of Freedom and Security
Silasi, Grigore; Simina, Ovidiu Laurian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
research in Romania. At this time, migration and mobility are studied as minor subjects in Economics, Sociology, Political … studies’, while research should cover migration as a whole, migration and mobility being analysed from different points of … workers’ mobility at the European level. The waves of illegal immigrants arriving continuously on the Spanish, Italian and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621891
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Immigration and Economic Growth: Do Origin and Destination Matter?
Kang, Youngho; Kim, Byung-Yeon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper assesses the heterogeneous effects of immigration on economic growth depending on both the origin and the destination countries. Following the development of a simple growth model augmented by the embodied human capital of immigrants, we estimate the growth equation using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257906
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Geographic, Gender and Skill Structure of International Migration
Docquier, Frédéric; Marfouk, Abdeslam; Özden, Caglar; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper presents a new bilateral database documenting international migration stocks by gender, education level, origin and destination. We build on existing databases of OECD host countries in 1990 and 2000 and expand their coverage by collecting or estimating migration to all non-OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112944