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places. This paper seeks to understand the labor market implications of allowing free migration across borders, with … particular reference to the EU. The aim is to quantify the migration flows associated with EU enlargement, and to analyze the …
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This paper discusses a possible solution to the double problem that faces European governments in dealing with the future of Social Security pensions. Like other governments around the world, they must deal with the rising cost of pensions that will result from the increasing life expectancy of...
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studies by focusing on the relationship between job mobility and migration. First, the proportion of geographic mobility that … relationship between migration and job mobility. Third, the effect of migration on the wage gains of individuals is studied and … Mature Men and the Coleman-Rossi Retrospective Life History Study), the importance of the relationship between migration and …
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use the EU Labour Force Survey to construct migration flows by skill and nationality across 17 countries for the period … 2002-2007. We then exploit the timing variation of the 2004 EU enlargement to estimate the elasticity of migration flows to … would have been worse off after the enlargement. We study even further the interaction effects between trade and migration …
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labor migration, that may nullify the "race to the bottom" hypothesis. Labor migration is governed by net-of-tax factor … into account the effect of taxes and migration on factor rewards and the fiscal burden imposed by migration on the decisive … state member state), with tax financed benefits which is able to control the volume and the skill-composition of migration …
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database of bilateral stocks and net migration flows of immigrants and emigrants by education level for the years 1990 through …
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wage response, the impact of migration on the wage structure differs significantly across countries. International … migration narrowed wage inequality in Canada; increased it in the United States; and reduced the relative wage of workers at the …
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We develop a stylized EU-type model of a union consisting of rich, capital-abundant and high productivity countries, and poor, capital-scarce and low productivity countries. We address two main issues: the efficiency of tax competition and the effect of factor mobility on the size of the welfare...
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This study examines the occupational mobility of antebellum immigrants as they entered the U.S. White collar, skilled, and semi-skilled immigrants left unskilled jobs more rapidly after arrival than farmers and unskilled workers. British and German immigrants fared better than the Irish;...
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We estimate substitution possibilities among a set of age-race-sex groups in the labor force. The estimates are based on cross-section data from SMSAs in 1969,and they allow us to consider how substitutable adult women are for young women or young men. The estimates are used, along with...
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