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Recent immigrants as labor market arbitrageurs : evidence from the minimum wage

Cadena, Brian C. - In: Journal of urban economics 80 (2014), pp. 1-12

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Income of immigrants and their return : both low- and high-income immigrants stay for a relatively short time

Bijwaard, Govert - 2015

The majority of immigrants stay only temporarily in the host country. When many migrations are temporary, it is important to know who leaves and who stays, and why. The key questions for the host country are whether immigrants are net contributors to the welfare system and whether migrants...

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The welfare magnet hypothesis and the welfare take-up of migrants : welfare benefits are not a key determinant of migration

Giulietti, Corrado - 2014

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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From labor to cash flow? : the abolition of immigration restrictions and the performance of Swiss firms

Ruffner, Jan; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2016

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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The abolition of immigration restrictions and the performance of firms and workers : evidence from Switzerland

Beerli, Andreas; Ruffner, Jan; Siegenthaler, Michael; … - 2020

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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Taxes and migration flows : preferential tax schemes for high-skill immigrants

Sousa, João Brogueira de; Teles, Pedro - 2023

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POLISH IMMIGRANTS INLEICESTER:Forms of Capital UnderpinningEntrepreneurial Activity

Vershinina, Natalia; Barrett, Rowena; Meyer, Michael - Leicester Business School - 2009

In this paper we report a study of 10 Polish immigrant entrepreneurs operating inLeicester, UK. Like Ram, Theodorakopoulos and Jones (2008) we take a forms-ofcapitalapproach but use Bourdieu’s (1983) social, cultural and economic capitals asthe lens through which to explore their pathways to...

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Zuwanderungspolitik und die Finanzierung der Sozialsysteme

Bauer, Konrad - 2004

, migration policy sole is not able to solve the fiscal problems of the welfare system. The second part treats the question … on migration policy submitted by the german government using the preceding results. …

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Changes in immigration status and purpose of stay: an overview of EU Member States’ approaches : Synthesis Report for the EMN Focussed Study 2015

European Migration Network - 2016

third-country nationals to change migration status, as well as the conditions associated with such changes. It also looked …

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Priorities and Developmental Directions of Polish Migration Policy

Iglicka, Krystyna - 2003

mass westward emigration of Poles is unlikely, Polish migration policy faces various challenges, such as the need to … to Poland to work out the premises and priorities of its migration policy. There should be a single institution tasked … with shaping and co-ordinating Poland's migration policy. There should be a parliamentary debate on the priorities of …

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