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Coming Out of the Shadows: Learning About Legal Status and Wages from the Legalized Population.
Kossoudji, S.A.; Cobb-Clark, D.A. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1996
oppoortunities. Estimation of wages using panel data for a sample of legalized men and a comparison sample of legal workers provides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004971349
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Foreign Investment, Outsourcing and Relative Wages.
Feenstra, R.C.; Hanson, G.H. - Economics Department, University of California-Davis - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005035777
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Young FSU Migrants in Germany: Educational Attainment and Early Labor Market Outcomes
Flake, Regina - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684808
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Labor Market Transparency
Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010700367
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Foreign Investment, Outsourcing and Relative Wages.
Feenstra, R.C.; Hanson, G.H. - California Davis - Institute of Governmental Affairs - 1995
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656821
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Skill Mismatch and Migration in Egypt and Tunisia
Nordman, Christophe Jalil; David, Anda Mariana - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2014
The objective of this paper is to shed light on the issue of skill mismatch in the context of return migration in Egypt … and Tunisia. Using data on both return and potential migrants in Egypt and Tunisia, we analyze the skills that migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795037
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Self-Selection Patterns among Return Migrants: Mexico 1990-2010
Vázquez, Raymundo M. Campos; Lara, Jaime Lara - Centro de Estudios Económicos, Colegio de México - 2011
currently live in Mexico. To calculate the selection patterns, we non parametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the … that the selection patterns change over time toward negative selection. For example, in 1990, the wages that the male … return migrants would have experienced had they not migrated was 6 percent larger than the wages of male non migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009292059
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Precarious Residents: Migration Control, Membership and the Rights of Non-Citizens
Gibney, Matthew - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2009
This paper examines the situation of a subgroup of non-citizens found in virtually all contemporary states, what I call “precarious residents”. Precarious residents can be defined as non-citizens living in the state that possess few social, political or economic rights, are highly vulnerable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008507028
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Illegal to punish or punish the illegals: Which way should Ukraine and Moldova choose?
Lundgren, Ted - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
A government seeks to minimise the maximum expected utility of migrants and smugglers, but has to do this under constraints. It is argued that a vote maximising government should choose policies based on the relative weight of the introduced lobby utility function, which acts as a constraint....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148017
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State border corruption and illegal migration: A model
Lundgren, Ted; Lappo, Petr - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
State border corruption is still a problem for Belarus, Ukraine and Moldova. In a theoretical model, it is shown how a border guard authority should optimally allocate budgetary resources to oblasts in presence of corruption, so as to minimise the general average number of illegal migrants.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151122