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Spatial wage gaps and frictional labor markets

Heise, Sebastian; Porzio, Tommaso - 2019

quantify three distinct barriers that prevent East Germans from migrating west to obtain a higher wage: migration costs …

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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 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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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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Composition and determinants of the skilled out-migration in the Brazilian formal labor market : a panel data analysis from 1995 to 2006

Freguglia, Ricardo da Silva; Gonçalves, Eduardo; … - In: Economia : revista da ANPEC 15 (2014) 1, pp. 100-117

confirm the importance of wage differentials in determining such mobility. Furthermore, an increased skilled out-migration …

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Fast locations and slowing labor mobility

Coate, Patrick; Mangum, Kyle - 2019

Declining internal migration in the United States is driven by increasing home attachment in locations with initially … attachment, this paper estimates a structural model of migration that distinguishes moving frictions from home utility …

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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) C, pp. 1-12

This paper investigates the local labor supply effects of changes to the minimum wage by examining the response of low-skilled immigrants’ location decisions. Canonical models emphasize the importance of labor mobility when evaluating the employment effects of the minimum wage; yet few studies...

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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification based on nonparametric estimation

Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002

This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...

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Settlement and migration patterns among immigrants in Norway

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2014

-enlargements. The aim of the paper is to investigate the regional settlement and migration patterns of immigrants mostly recognized by … persistent pattern of domestic migration towards central regions for this group. Children of immigrants born in Norway, education … and their families show strong and positive relationship between domestic migration and regional employment change due to …

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Pandemic Impact on Migrants, Immigrants and Reverse Migrants in India. Implications for Immediate Policy Interventions

Pazhanisamy, R. - 2020

The present Covid -19 pandemic has taken away many millions of lives across the countries and negatively affect the lifestyles of crores of households and the migrant populations are the immediate victims of such disaster. This policy brief trace and reveals the extent of migrants population in...

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