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Cyclical dimensions of labour mobility after EU enlargement
Ahearnea, Alan; Brücker, Herbert; Darvasa, Zsolt; … - 2009
find that, in the short run, the crisis is likely to lead to a somewhat lower stock of migrants from the new member states … in the EU15 than would have been the case without the crisis on account of diminished job opportunities for migrants. By …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874247
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Managing migration through quotas : an option-theory perspective
Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2008
Recent European Legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), also by using immigration quotas. On the other hand, there is an increase of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008772378
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485454
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Immigration and offshoring : two forces of globalisation and their impact on employment and the bargaining power of occupational groups
Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sandra M. - 2020
This paper estimates conditional demand models and, using a joint approach for the period 2008-2017, examines the impact of immigration and different measures of offshoring on the labour demand and demand elasticities of native workers in four different types of occupational groups:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012167255
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Migrant networks and job search outcomes : evidence from displaced workers
Colussi, Tommaso - 2013 - First draft: December 2011, This version: June 2013
This paper investigates how the job search outcomes of displaced migrants are affected by the labor market outcomes of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766167
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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 in host countries. In recent years, a growing body of empirical literature has attempted to understand the effect of lacking legal status on immigrants' outcomes and behaviour....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472833
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Employment gaps between refugees, migrants and natives : evidence from Austrian Register based labour market data
Jestl, Stefan; Landesmann, Michael; Leitner, Sebastian; … - 2019
-humanitarian migrants, European third country immigrants and natives. We draw on a register based panel dataset covering the complete labour … unconditional gap between refugees and natives declines to 30 percentage points, similar to the one of non-humanitarian migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153921
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Immigration and national wages : clarifying the theory and the empirics
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2008
This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … evaluate the competition as well as cross-skill complementary effects of immigrants on wages. We also emphasize the importance … degree (-0.7%) and on average wages (-0.4%) while it had small positive effects on native workers with no high school degree …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008796285
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Immigration, offshoring and American jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - 2010
How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008747717
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Heterogeneous labor impacts of migration across skill groups : the case of Costa Rica
Blyde, Juan S. - 2020
Popular empirical strategies that examine the labor impacts of migrants, like the skill-cell approach, are frequently … positive employment and wage effects on high-skilled women arising from low-skilled migrants. These positive effects are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012267496