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Migration and Wage-Setting: Reassessing the Labor Market Effects of Migration

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

This paper employs a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany. The wage-setting framework relies on the assumption that wages tend to decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This enables us to consider labor market rigidities, which...

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Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Jahn, Elke Jutta; Upward, Richard; Brücker, Herbert - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare states. Institutions such as collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and...

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Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets: Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J.; Upward, Richard - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Migration and the Wage Curve: A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration

Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on … wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously in a general equilibrium framework. For the empirical analysis we … vocational degree. The wage and employment effects of migration are moderate: a 1 percent increase in the German labor force …

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L'immigration : quels effets économiques ?

Jayet, Hubert; Ragot, Lionel; Rajaonarison, Dominique - In: Revue d'économie politique 111 (2001) 4, pp. 565-596

migration flows needed to stabilize support ratios are very high. The behavior of international labor markets will completely …

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A "Glass-Ceiling" Effect for Immigrants in the Italian Labour Market?

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...

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Authoritarianism and labor market : preference of labor policies in the Arab Gulf countries

Matsuo, Masaki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015

Migrant and labor issues are a primary concern in the Arab Gulf countries. With focus on the economic and political conditions that influence actors' decisions when framing labor policies, this study analyzes how preferences of such policies are formed and explains why the governments of the...

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Demographics, Labor Mobility, and Productivity

Wilson, E. J.; Jayanthakumaran, K.; Verma, R. - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2012

it is possible to share the burdens of ageing and dependency through migration, this will not happen under present …

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....

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Labor market integration and migration: impacts on skill formation and the wage structure

BEHRENS, Kristian; SATO, Yasuhiro - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2006

We analyze the impacts of labor market integration and migration on skill formation, wage structures, and per capita … integration, by allowing for migration in response to wage differentials, changes the wage structures and, therefore, the … evidence concerning international migration, the widening international income dispersion, the narrowing national income …

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