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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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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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Social cohesion and labor mobility
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Social cohesion and labor mobility both have the same objective and do not need to be in conflict. They are about cooperating among individuals and societies in order to survive and prosper. Social cohesion can benefit from labour mobility: Labour mobility is economically beneficial for migrants...
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012198332
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011447106
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Migration und Integration: Deutschland als Einwanderungsland - "... denn ihr seid selbst Fremde in Ägypten gewesen"
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
selbstbewusster und unaufgeregter Umgang mit den Themen Migration und Integration angeregt, zu dem Deutschland leider bislang nicht …
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Ethnische Vielfalt und Arbeitsmarkterfolg
Rinne, Ulf; Schüller, Simone; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
Das ökonomische Potenzial ethnischer und kultureller Vielfalt wird häufig verkannt. Die Ergebnisse neuerer Studien, die in diesem Beitrag zusammengefasst werden, zeigen jedoch, dass sich weiche Faktoren wie etwa Einstellungen, Wahrnehmungen und Identitäten, hier insbesondere ethnische...
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Aliyah to Israel: Immigration under Conditions of Adversity
Neuman, Shoshana - 1999
?Operation Solomon?. What were the factors that drove this unprecedented migration of Jews from around the globe to Israel? Many … of the major international migration movements were largely economic in nature (the push of poverty or the pull of … migration, which reflects failure to absorb, is discussed, and the very different absorption policies of the 1950s and the 1990s …
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