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Research on labour market impacts of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program
Cardoso, Miguel; Haan, Michael; Lombardo, Federico; … - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014305030
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Southwest as the new internal migration destination in Turkey
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysit - 2012
Antalya and Muğla provinces located in southwestern Turkey have emerged as the new magnets for internal migration in the country. Characteristics of immigration from other provinces to these two are described, and analyzed in the context of the gravity model. The factors that affect the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283931
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Imigranci na norweskim rynku pracy
Napierała, Joanna - 2008
surfaced in the past decade. The study helps identify the main determinants of the demand for foreign labour in Norway, as well … as of factors that are likely to shape the scale and the composition of the demand for foreign labour in Norway in the … near future. The study includes a short description of the history of migration to Norway, and a description of the main …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011470835
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Challenges of Nordic labour markets: A polarization of working life?
Asplund, Rita; Barth, Erling; Lundborg, Per; Nilsen, … - 2011
Labour-market polarization is characterized by increased employment in occupations at the top but also at the bottom of the skills and wage distributions, followed by a relative decline in 'middling' occupations. This paper documents a polarization trend also in the Nordic labour markets and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326905
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The Effect of Migration on Income Convergence: Meta-Analytic Evidence
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009
Using meta-analytical techniques, we focus on 11 studies that explicitly measure the effect of a net migration variable in neoclassical convergence models and derive 57 comparable effect sizes. The data suggest that an increase in the net migration rate of one percentage point increases on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325788
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Age, period and cohort effects on migration of the baby boomers in Australia
Sander, Nikola; Bell, Martin - 2012
The differential migration behaviour of the baby boom generation is commonly explained by reference to cohort size effects. This paper focuses on inter-cohort differences in the intensity and pattern of internal migration in Australia, while paying particular attention to the Australian baby...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352566
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Gleichzeitigkeit von Suburbanisierung und Reurbanisierung im Bremer Raum
Lecke-Lopatta, Tom - In: Reurbanisierung zwischen Wunsch und Wirklichkeit: Ein …, (pp. 177-197). 2019
Die Fragestellung, ob es Reurbanisierungstendenzen im Bremer Raum gibt, wird anhand einer Betrachtung der verschiedenen Wanderungsströme sowohl der Stadt Bremen als auch ihrer Nachbargemeinden diskutiert. Dabei wird herausgearbeitet, dass sich im Laufe der letzten zwei Jahrzehnte die Tendenzen...
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Internal Migration, Regional Labour Market Dynamics and Implications for German East-West Disparities – Results from a Panel VAR
Alecke, Björn; Mitze, Timo; Untiedt, Gerhard - 2009
This paper analyses the causal linkages between regional labour market variables and internal migration flows among German states between 1991-2006. We adopt a Panel VAR approach to identify the feedback effects among the variables and analyse the dynamic properties of the system through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265805
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Dialects, cultural Identity, and economic exchange
Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Lameli, Alfred; … - 2010
We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266077
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Are immigrants more mobile than natives? Evidence from Germany
Schündeln, Matthias - 2007
Low rates of internal migration in many European countries contribute to the persistence of significant regional labor market differences. To further our understanding of the underlying reasons I study internal migration in Germany, using the Mikrozensus, a very large sample of households living...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268515