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The immigrant wage gap in Germany : are East Europeans worse off?
Lehmer, Florian; Ludsteck, Johannes - 2010
This study compares the outcomes of male foreign workers from different East and West European countries who entered the German labour market between 1995 and 2000, with those of male German workers. We find that the immigrant-native wage gap differs significantly between nationalities: the...
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Eastern European immigrants in the UK before and after the 2004 European enlargement
Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012 - This version: 31 January 2012
-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However …
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Receiving countries' perspectives : the case of Sweden
Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2014
Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … rather stable in the years after the crisis in 2008. The main explanation is most likely that the recession in Sweden was … were employed. If the present EMU crisis is spreading to Sweden the result may of course be different. …
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Local-level immigration and life satisfaction : the EU enlargement experience in England and Wales
Ivlevs, Artjoms; Veliziotis, Michail - 2015
The 2004 European Union enlargement resulted in an unprecedented wave of 1.5 million workers relocating from Eastern Europe to the UK. We study how this migrant inflow affected life satisfaction of native residents in England and Wales. Combining the British Household Panel Survey with the Local...
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Employer Strategies, Cross-Class Coalitions and the Free Movement of Labour in the Enlarged European Union
Afonso, Alexandre - 2012
The free circulation of workers and services in the European Union after its latest enlargements has been believed to foster a ‘race to the bottom’ in wage standards. This paper explains the strategies of national employer associations towards labour market regulations geared to protect...
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Migration in an enlarged EU : a challenging solution?
Kahanec, Martin (contributor);  … - 2008
flows from new to old member states, (ii) restrictions applied in some of the countries did not stop migrants from coming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793104
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Migration in an enlarged EU : a challenging solution?
Kahanec, Martin (contributor);  … - 2008
flows from new to old member states, (ii) restrictions applied in some of the countries did not stop migrants from coming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793577
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Labor mobility and the integration of European labor markets
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003809161
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Costs and benefits of labor mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries : the case of Poland
Duszczyk, Maciej; Góra, Marek; Kaczmarczyk, Paweł - 2013
Poland is a country being exposed to emigration and immigration flows relatively recently. That, among others, results in not fully developed yet institutional infrastructure for managing especially the immigrants flow. In this paper we structure all existing data and other pieces of information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010196429
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Labor mobility and the integration of European labor markets
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003817751