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Labor Market Transparency
Wadensjö, Eskil - 2013
The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....
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Young FSU Migrants in Germany: Educational Attainment and Early Labor Market Outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
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Self-selection patterns among return migrants: Mexico 1990-2010
Campos-Vazquez, Raymundo M.; Lara, Jaime - In: IZA Journal of Migration 1 (2012), pp. 1-18
the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have … that the wages of return migrants are larger than those that the migrants would have obtained had they not migrated. …
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Eastern European Immigrants in the UK Before and After the 2004 European Enlargement
Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012
probability, wages, and job quality compared to British natives, to earlier immigrants, and to people in the country of origin. …
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The returns to occupational foreign language use: Evidence from Germany
Stöhr, Tobias - 2013
This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...
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Macroeconomic consequences of migration diversion: A CGE simulation for Germany and the UK
Baas, Timo; Brücker, Herbert - 2008
Der Beitrag untersucht die makroökonomischen Auswirkungen der Umlenkung der Migrationsströme im Laufe der EU-Osterweiterung von Deutschland weg in Richtung Großbritannien. Mit den neuen osteuropäischen Mitgliedsländern wurden Übergangsfristen bis zur kompletten Freizügigkeit vereinbart....
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The Dynamic Impact of Immigration on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes : Evidence from Israel
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2004
outcomes. Specifically, we attempt to distinguish between the short-run and long-run effects of immigrants on natives? wages … alternative hypotheses using data from Israel?s Labor Force and Income Surveys from 1989 to 1999. We find that wages of both men … segment. A 10 percent increase in the share of immigrants lowers natives? wages in the short run by 1 to 3 percent, but this …
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Mass Migration to Israel and Natives? Transitions from Employment
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Paserman, Marco Daniele - 2004
This paper studies the impact of mass migration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives? probability of moving from employment to non-employment in a segmented labor market that is defined by various combinations of schooling, occupation, industry, district of residence and experience....
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Remittances by emigrants: Issues and evidence
Solimano, Andrés - 2003
Remittances, after foreign direct investment, are currently the most important source of external finance to developing countries. Remittances surpass foreign aid, and tend to be more stable than such volatile capital flows as portfolio investment and international bank credit. Remittances are...
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European immigrants in the UK before and after the 2004 enlargement: Is there a change in immigrant self-selection?
Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012
The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries (EU8) to the European Union has generated concerns about the influx of low-skill immigrants to the Western member states (EU15). Only three countries, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK, did not impose restrictions to immigration from Eastern...
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