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International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566767
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Did post-enlargement labor mobility help the EU to adjust during the Great Recession? : the case of Slovakia
Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2014
This paper evaluates the mobility patterns of Slovaks into the rest of the European Union (EU) following Slovakia's EU accession in 2004 and through the Great Recession. Combining information from various data sources including the Slovak Labor Force Survey and conducting our own statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010364962
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Migration and Globalization: Challenges and Perspectives for the Research Infrastructure
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration complicates their scientific use. Virtually no existing dataset captures international migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822284
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Migration in an Enlarged EU: A Challenging Solution?
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The 2004 and 2007 enlargements of the European Union were unprecedented in a number of economic and policy aspects. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as well as sending countries in three broader areas: labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822758
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Migration and Globalization: Challenges and Perspectives for the Research Infrastructure
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Rat für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsdaten (RatSWD), … - 2008
International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration complicates their scientific use. Virtually no existing dataset captures international migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008678577
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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview
Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2010
generations. Roma people seem to face particularly grave integration barriers in European labor markets. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765850
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What Explains Immigrant-Native Gaps in European Labor Markets: The Role of Institutions
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
The role of institutions in immigrant integration remains underexplored in spite of its essential significance for … integration policies. This paper adopts the Varieties of Capitalism framework to study the institutional determinants of Immigrant …-native differences in characteristics from those that cannot be explained by such differences, as these require different integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168438
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What Explains Immigrant-native gaps in European Labor Markets: The Role of Institutions
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Mýtna Kureková, Lucia - Central European Labour Studies Institute (CELSI) - 2015
The role of institutions in immigrant integration remains underexplored in spite of its essential significance for … integration policies. This paper adopts the Varieties of Capitalism framework to study the institutional determinants of immigrant …-native differences in characteristics from those that cannot be explained by such differences, as these require different integration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183319
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Ethnic Minorities in the European Union: An Overview
Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
generations. Roma people seem to face particularly grave integration barriers in European labor markets. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008777156
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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA Journal of Migration 3 (2014), pp. 1-13
Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...
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