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This study analyses the effect of trade and migration on wages and labour market mobility. We estimate wage growth … in the reactions of white and blue-collar workers wages and mobility to trade and migration. In Austria exports have a … of workers. The risk of being out of work by contrast is increased by migration and imports for only blue-collar workers …
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I analyze the skill structure of commuters in 15 EU countries. Theory suggests that higher returns to education in receiving regions and shorter commuting distances favor positive selection of commuters. Empirically all types of commuters in most EU countries are more skilled than non-commuters....
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This project focuses on comparing the qualification structure of migrants residing in Austria as well as their over- and underqualification rates to other EU countries. The skill structure of foreign born residing in Austria has improved slightly in the last years. Austria is, however,...
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observable factors. The reasons for this are primarily lower tax payments of migrant households. Selective migration and sound … effective means to avoid fiscal burdens of migration. …
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We use new migration modelling and projection techniques in order to quantify the effect of migration in the context of … ageing societies in Europe over the forthcoming decades. Using new empirical results, data and projections of migration flows …
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in the impact of social capital on migration decisions of different age groups. …
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The study uses the findings of the ad-hoc module looking into the working and living situation of migrants within the employment survey of the second quarter of 2008 to provide an overview of the labour market situation in Austria faced by first- and second-generation migrants and those born...
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I analyse the skill and age structure of commuters in 14 EU countries. Theory implies that commuters can be either more or less able than stayers, but are always less able than migrants and that they are also always older than migrants but younger than stayers. Empirically all types of commuters...
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We offer an empirical, econometric analysis of the impact of migration on the EU 27's NUTS-2 regions in the period 2000 …-2007. While our results indicate that migration had no statistical impact on regional unemployment in the EU it had a significant … Europe practically all have below-average GDP, migration seems to induce divergence rather than convergence. …
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We analyze the long-term impact of the resettlement of the Sudetenland after World War~II on residential migration … substantially lower local social capital in the resettled settlements that is likely to have caused higher residential migration …. This explanation is consistent with theoretical models of the impact of social capital on migration decisions. …
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