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better information on migration and for wage premiums and discounts to be estimated across sectors and countries. The second … migration policies. Whilst it is possible to share the burdens of ageing and dependency through migration, this will not happen … under present arrangements. Migration cannot continue to be treated differently to trade and finance. A framework needs to …
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quantify three distinct barriers that prevent East Germans from migrating west to obtain a higher wage: migration costs …
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Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...
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Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed … migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. This paper identifies the salient questions to be … addressed by any educated migration policy. It embeds this discussion into a systematic classification of economic migration …
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Contrary to the welfare magnet hypothesis, empirical evidence suggests that immigration decisions are not made on the basis of the relative generosity of the receiving nation's social benefits. Even when immigrants are found to use welfare more intensively than natives, the gap is mostly...
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Interstate migration in the United States has declined by 50 percent since the mid-1980s. This paper studies the role … in the labor market, which affects the migration rate of all workers. We document that an increase in the share of middle …-aged workers (those ages 40 to 60) in the working-age population in one state causes a large fall in the migration rate of all …
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Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed … migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. This paper identifies the salient questions to be … addressed by any educated migration policy. It embeds this discussion into a systematic classification of economic migration …
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Intensified European integration,enlargement of the EU,and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed … migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda.While many observers hesitate to embrace immigration … almost unanimous call for larger mobility within Europe.Yet, neither does intra-European migration respond to this request …
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We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment substantially. Although many cross-border workers were highly...
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What is the effect of opening the labor market to foreign workers on the success of firms? We address this question by analyzing how firms in Switzerland were affected by the introduction of the free movement of persons with the European Union (EU) countries. This immigration reform granted all...
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