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Social Capital and Immigrants' Labour Market Performance
Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Vaira-Lucero, Matias - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
effect of social capital on migrants' employment outcomes and wages, especially for women. Distinguishing employment into … results suggest that promoting opportunities to create social capital has a beneficial effect on migrants' integration in the …
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Determinantes macroeconómicos regionales de la migración mexicana
Mendoza, Jorge Eduardo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This article estimates the macroeconomic determinants of Mexican migration to the U.S.A., using information on the regional economic characteristics of the Mexican states, in a context of economic integration with the U.S. economy. A cross sectional database at the regional level is used to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623353
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Labor Mobility, Trade and Social Capital
Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Labor market integration raises welfare in the absence of distortions. This paper examines labor and goods market integration in a general equilibrium model with social capital. The findings are: i) labor market integration has an ambiguous impact on welfare, and raises it if the goods produced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700960
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Migration, Mobility and Human Rights at the Eastern Border of the European Union - Space of Freedom and Security
Silasi, Grigore; Simina, Ovidiu Laurian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This edited collection of migration papers would like to emphasise the acute need for migration related study and research in Romania. At this time, migration and mobility are studied as minor subjects in Economics, Sociology, Political Sciences and European Studies only (mostly at post-graduate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621891
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Becoming (Un)employed and Life Satisfaction: Asymmetric Effects and Potential Omitted Variable Bias in Empirical Happiness Studies
Maennig, Wolfgang; Wilhelm, Markus - Institut für Außenhandel und Wirtschaftsintegration, … - 2011
Becoming unemployed has negative effects on life satisfaction; a transition from unemployment to employment, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274560
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Women's Work after War
Kleykamp, Meredith A. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2010
women who serve in such disproportionate numbers. This paper investigates the civilian employment experiences of female … evaluate the employment experiences of female veterans. Second, data from an audit study of civilian hiring practices provides … force attachment. Only white women show slightly lower rates of employment (among those in the labor force), while black …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008642327
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THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF STUDYING THE MIGRATION PROCESSES
RASULOVA, DILFUZA - In: Perspectives of Innovation in Economics and Business (PIEB) 4 (2010) 1, pp. 86-87
In conditions of continuous growth of population in Uzbekistan the issue of managing the labor migration processes is becoming more important. Effective coordination of migration processes requires comprehensive study of theory and methodology of labour migration, particularly considering cases...
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Main areas of employment potential in the labour market in Siberia
Karpov, Valery - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
segmentation based on several criteria: the availability of alternative forms of employment; different rates of release and quality … consider the regulation of programs aimed at stabilizing employment in the region, to preserve the intellectual capacity to … effective employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110817
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Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Partner Countries. Country report: Georgia
Labadze, Lasha; Tukhashvili, Mirian - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2013
This study provides an analysis of the costs and benefits of emigration for Georgia, with an emphasis on emigration to the EU. In the concluding section we dwell on the consequences of a possible liberalization of EU migration policies with regard to Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, and how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010857956
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Do Migrants Send Remittances as a Way of Self-Insurance? Evidence from a Representative Immigrant Survey
Batista, Catia; Umblijs, Janis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Do migrants send remittances as a way of obtaining insurance? While this motive is theoretically suggested in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884255