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Migration and Adjustments to Shocks in Transition Economies
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2002
Does migration facilitate regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks in transition economies; If so, one should find a strong relationship between regional unemployment and average wages on the one hand, and migration flows on the other. Yet, the evidence from transition economies indicates...
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Migration and Regional Adjustment to Asymmetric Shocks in Transition Economies
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2004
Does migration facilitate regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks? The evidence from post-communist economies indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing interregional unemployment and wage differentials is low. High wages appear to encourage and high unemployment tends to...
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Migration and adjustment to shocks in transition economies
Fidrmuc, Jan - 2001
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Labour mobility and labour market adjustment in the EU
Arpaia, Alfonso; Kiss, Áron; Palvolgyi, Balazs; … - 2015
This paper assesses macroeconomic determinants of labour mobility and its role in the adjustment to asymmetric shocks. First, the paper develops stylised facts of mobility at the national and sub-national levels in the EU. Then, it explores the macroeconomic determinants of bilateral migration...
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Labour mobility and labour market adjustment in the EU
Arpaia, Alfonso; Kiss, Áron; Palvolgyi, Balazs; … - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 5 (2016) 21, pp. 1-21
This paper assesses the role of labour mobility in the adjustment to asymmetric economic shocks in the EU. After presenting a series of stylised facts of mobility in the EU, it assesses mobility as a channel of economic adjustment by means of a vector autoregression (VAR) analysis in the vein of...
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Gravity models : a tool for migration analysis : availability of bilateral data on migratory flows has renewed interest in using gravity models to identify migration determinants
Ramos, Raúl - 2016
Gravity models have long been popular for analyzing economic phenomena related to the movement of goods and services, capital, or even people; however, data limitations regarding migration flows have hindered their use in this context. With access to improved bilateral (country to country) data,...
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A Gravity Model of Migration between Enc and EU
Ramos, Raul - 2013
Due to ageing population and low birth rates, the European Union (EU) will need to import foreign labour in the next decades. In this context, the EU neighbouring countries (ENC) are the main countries of origin and transit of legal and illegal migration towards Europe. Their economic, cultural...
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Realising regional potentials through better market integration in China
Molnár, Margit - 2019
China’s regions have been experiencing impressive growth over the past decades, but their potentials could be better …. Restrictions on the hukou and the fragmented pension system limit labour mobility. Local regulations aim at, among other things …-in-hand with the reform of inter-governmental finances. Recent measures on both the product and labour market front appear to aim …
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EU enlargement and the race to the bottom of welfare states
Skupnik, Christoph - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-21
After the introduction of the freedom of movement for Eastern European workers, EU-15 countries were expected to reduce public benefits in order to avoid becoming "welfare magnets". However, OECD data do not support the prediction of a race to the bottom in benefit levels. Using EU-LFS data, I...
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Do earnings by college major affect graduate migration?
Winters, John V. - 2015
College graduates are considerably more mobile than non-graduates, and previous literature suggests that the difference is at least partially attributable to college graduates being more responsive to employment opportunities in other areas. However, there exist considerable differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388103