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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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Exit, voice and political change : evidence from Swedish mass migration to the United States
Karadja, Mounir; Prawitz, Erik - 2018
We study the political effects of mass emigration to the United States in the 19th century using data from Sweden. To instrument for total emigration over several decades, we exploit severe local frost shocks that sparked an initial wave of emigration, interacted with within-country travel...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594379
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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 …
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 as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States
Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - 2014
The question of whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market is an important criterion for an … new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour market shocks. We find that recent migration flows have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333349
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Migration as an adjustment mechanism in the crisis? A comparison of Europe and the United States 2006-2016
Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - 2018
We estimate whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market by comparing pre- and post …-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes - i.e. an upper-bound estimate - up to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012030912
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Migration as an adjustment mechanism in the crisis? A comparison of Europe and the United States 2006-2016
Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John; Puhani, Patrick - 2018
We estimate whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market by comparing pre- and post …-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes - i.e. an upper-bound estimate - up to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532856