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system and the labour market, to migrants and by including migrants in the national welfare system. With regard to the …
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Antwerp is the largest city in Flanders, with 470,044 inhabitants in 2006. Some 13% of the city’s population consists of foreigners, of whom 8% are non-EU nationals. Antwerp’s municipal housing policy aims to sustain and even increase the diversity within the city. This diversity pertains...
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The city of Vienna’s integration policies since the beginning of the 1990s have aimed to achieve equal rights and opportunities for immigrants in all spheres of social and economic, cultural and political life of the local population. Thus, a comprehensive set of measures were implemented to...
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Considering the late start of immigration - 10 years ago -, integration policies in Terrassa have developed rather …
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. In this prosperous city, the integration of migrants has primarily taken place through structural integration into the … labour market. The city included migrants in the general welfare state and social policy system. Concerning the housing … homeownership for families, a programme often used by migrants. …
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average) low income level of Frankfurt’s migrants, they frequently have less housing space than inhabitants without a … migration background. Migrants also tend to live in neighbourhoods with comparatively bad housing environments. However, in …
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We live in a service economy, but the extent of development of service employment differs across developed countries. This paper assesses the role of structural factors and institutions in explaining the common patterns and main differences in the recent expansion of service employment in OECD...
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intracorporate transferees from outside the EU is outlined in Section 3, where immigration legislation for these types of workers is … well as their assimilation into the labour market. The role of both restrictive immigration policies and of practical … barriers to integration is investigated. The impact of immigration on the wages and on the welfare state is considered in …
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Using the Albrecht et al. (2003) version of the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition technique along the wage distribution, we find that immigrant workers do not affect changes in the Czech wage structure between 2002 and 2006 despite their substantial inflows. Instead, changes in the wage...
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A small labour market model for the six largest euro area countries (Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Belgium) is estimated in a state -space framework. The model entails, in the long run, four driving forces: a trend labour force component, a trend labour productivity component,...
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