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Recent theoretical and empirical studies have emphasized the fact that the prospect of international migration … that temporary migration is widespread among highly skilled migrants (such as Eastern Europeans in Western Europe and … for return migration and which predicts who will migrate and who will return among agents with heterogeneous abilities. We …
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Migration of young workers (as distinct from retirees), even when driven in by the generosity of the welfare state …, slows down the trend of increasing dependency ratio. But, even though low-skill migration improves the dependency ratio, it … estimate the fiscal burden that low-skill migration imposes on the fiscal system. However an important message of this paper is …
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Aging populations in advanced economies are placing ever-increasing demands on government spending in the form of old-age benefits. Economies that have promised substantially more benefits than they have made provision to finance are heading into a prolonged era of fiscal stress. Unresolved...
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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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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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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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This paper employs MIMIC, an applied general equilibrium model of the Dutch economy, to explore various tax cuts aimed at combating unemployment and raising labor supply. MIMIC combines modern labor-market theories, a firm empirical foundation detailed description of Dutch labor-market...
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Projected demographic changes in industrialized and developing countries vary in extent and timing but will reduce the share of the population in working age everywhere. Conventional wisdom suggests that this will increase capital intensity with falling rates of return to capital and increasing...
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There is growing concern about a decline in the total fertility rate worldwide, but nowhere is the concern greater than in OECD countries, some of which already face the prospect of population decline as well. While the trend is largely the result of structural economic and social changes, our...
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