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Immigration and national wages : clarifying the theory and the empirics

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2008

evaluate the competition as well as cross-skill complementary effects of immigrants on wages. We also emphasize the importance … immigrants and workers with no degree. We then estimate the substitutability between natives and immigrants and we find a small … but significant degree of imperfect substitution which further decreases the competitive effect of immigrants. Finally, we …

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Intellectual property rights, migration, and diaspora

Naghavi, Alireza; Strozzi, Chiara - 2011

In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although emigration from the South may directly result in the...

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Understanding the role of immigrants' legal status : evidence from policy experiments

Fasani, Francesco - 2014

Programs aimed at reducing the presence of unauthorised immigrants are often at the core of the migration policy debate … lacking legal status on immigrants' outcomes and behaviour. The main difficulties in this field are the scarcity of data and … systematic review of the empirical literature for the US and Europe on the impact of legal status on different immigrants …

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Being on the frontline? : immigrant workers in Europe and the COVID-19 pandemic

Fasani, Francesco; Mazza, Jacopo - 2020

women are exposed to higher risk of unemployment than native men and that women are losing jobs at higher rates than equally … exposed men. According to our estimates, more than 9 million immigrants in the EU14+UK area are exposed to a high risk of …

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Migration from Africa, the Middle East and European neighbouring countries to the EU : an augmented gravity modelling approach

Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021

The South-North migration corridor, i.e. migration flows to the EU from Africa, the Middle East and EU neighbouring countries in the East, have overtaken the East-West migration corridor, i.e. migration flows from Central and East European countries to the EU15 and the European Free Trade...

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Potential mobility from Africa, Middle East and EU neighbouring countries to Europe

Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael; Grieveson, Richard - 2021

Migration from Africa and the Middle East to the EU has intensified over the last two decades. Relative differences between developed EU and less developed African and Middle East countries have not declined that much and continue to drive mobility. Also, demographic trends show a strong...

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Commuting in Europe: an inter-regional analysis on its determinants and spatial effects

Castelli, Chiara; Parenti, Angela - 2020

opportunities, here expressed as the unemployment rate differential for each single territory with respect to its surroundings …

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Refugees' integration into the Austrian labour market : dynamics of occupational mobility and job-skills mismatch

Leitner, Sandra M.; Landesmann, Michael - 2020

This paper analyses the employment experiences of the recent wave of Middle Eastern refugees (from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Iran) in the Austrian job market. The emphasis in this research was to investigate whether refugees experienced an initial (sharp) downgrade in their occupational...

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Net migration and its skill composition in the Western Balkan countries between 2010 and 2019 : results from a cohort approach

Leitner, Sandra M. - 2021

In view of the scarcity of reliable and detailed data on migration this paper develops the novel cohort approach, which allows us to deduce from annual Labour Force Surveys (LFS) the extent and skill composition of net migration. It is based on representative age cohorts who are followed over...

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Interrelationships between human capital, migration and labour markets in the Western Balkans : an econometric investigation

Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021

The high outward mobility that has characterised the countries in the Western Balkan (WB) region over the past three decades is often seen as tightly linked to severe labour market imbalances and persistently low utilisation of human capital over time. To shed light on these issues, we estimate...

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