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This paper examines migration trends in the European Union since the enlargements of 2004-2007, which brought 100 … migration trends and show how European integration depleted the labor force in new member countries. Several of them lost 10% of … their population since 2006, most of it via negative net migration. In 2019, 18% of Romanians, 14% of Lithuanians, 13 …
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Does employment flexibility facilitate cross-regional adjustments via labour mobility? Or is it instead a hinderance to cross-regional equilibration in the labour market? We examine this, drawing on a sample of 11 European countries belonging to different 'varieties' of European capitalism. We...
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This paper investigates how the evolution of local labour market structure enables or constrains workers as regards escaping low-wage jobs. Drawing on the network-based approach of evolutionary economic geography, we employ a detailed individual-level panel dataset to construct skill-relatedness...
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This paper tries to explain why most migration flows show some observable jumps in their processes, a phenomenon that … seems to be sympathetic with the characteristic of irreversibility of migration. We present a real option model where the … probability of being fully integrated into the host country. The theoretical results show that the optimal migration decision of a …
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This paper describes the Longitudinal Survey on Rural Urban Migration in China (RUMiC), a unique data source in terms …
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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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In this paper, we analyse the implications of labour market integration in a two-region model with local human capital externalities and congestion effects. We show that integration can be a double-edged sword. Integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can reduce "real" income...
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Between 1984 and 2003, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use Census data to examine how the internal mobility of Māori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that Māori are less...
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Between 1984 and 1993, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use census data to examine how the internal mobility of Māori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that Māori are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479193
This paper describes the Longitudinal Survey on Rural Urban Migration in China (RUMiC), a unique data source in terms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010389655