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This paper examines the role of labor market frictions and moving costs in explaining the migration behavior of US … estimate a dynamic model of individual labor supply and migration decisions. The model incorporates a reduced-form search model … and allows for migration for non-market reasons. My estimates show that moving costs are substantial and that labor market …
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This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with...
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' demographic prospects. We investigate the determinants of migration balances of German cities focusing on mobility of workers and … the significance of jobs and amenities. With investigating cities' migration balances we choose a rather direct measure of … persistent disparities in labour market performance and amenities across cities and the high internal migration - in particular …
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This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced on 1st July 1999, on migrants' probability of being over-/under-educated or correctly matched. The policy change consists of stricter entry requirements about age, language ability, education, and work...
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), labour demand and migration patterns. The adoption of new technologies might change the demand for labour in various ways … labour demand function. This is followed by an analysis of push and pull factors of bilateral migration that focuses on the …
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include a standardized measure of immigrants' pre-migration wage based on occupation, industry, tenure, qualification, and the … partial. A 10% higher pre-migration wage translates into a 1.6% higher wage in Germany when also controlling for educational … market. We also find that wage assimilation is significantly accelerated for immigrants with a higher pre-migration wage. Our …
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the hypothesis that Nicaraguan migration to Costa Rica was an important factor contributing to falling earnings, increased … few studies of the impact of this South-South migration. In this paper, we examine the impact of migration from one …
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-EU migration and productivity, and some weaker evidence of a negative association between EU migration and productivity, although …We investigate the impact of immigration on productivity in the UK, using newly published ONS data on employees of non …
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The end of free movement and the introduction of the post-Brexit migration system represent the most important changes … to the UK migration system in half a century. Coinciding with the aftereffects of the pandemic, the result has been very … migration trends on the UK economy and labour market, distinguishing between different sectors. …
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of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …
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