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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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A sustainable immigration policy for the EU
Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Kahanec, Martin - 2017
A sustainable EU Immigration Policy aims to contribute to a vibrant European society through more effectively and selectively managed immigration from outside the EU, more attention to integration of immigrants, more rooting out of discrimination, more asylum centres close to areas of conflict,...
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Do high-skilled immigrants find jobs faster than low-skilled immigrants? : conference paper
Hochfellner, Daniela; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2014 - Preliminary version: 27th February 2014
This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We first show theoretically that the job-finding rate for the high-skilled varies depending on their search strategy: if they are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as...
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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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What institutions help immigrants integrate?
Huber, Peter - 2015
I analyse the importance of national migration policy and labour market institutions for immigrants' labour market …, only important in selecting migrants with high employment probabilities and migration policy variables remain unimportant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011337132
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Immigrant performance and selective immigration policy : a European perspective
Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2005
. Integrated labour and migration policies are needed. The employment chances of the low-skilled are limited. Whereas Europe could …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528229
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Democratic involvement and immigrants' compliance with the law
Slotwinski, Michaela; Stutzer, Alois; Gorinas, Cédric - 2017
Many people are concerned about societal cohesion in the face of higher numbers of foreigners migrating to Western democracies. The challenge for the future is to find and adopt institutions that foster integration. We investigate how the right to vote in local elections affects immigrants'...
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Managing migration through conflicting policies : an option-theory perspective
Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2009
Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand … relax limits for immigrants in order to control migration inflows better. To this end, we use a real option approach to … migration choice that assumes that the decision to migrate can be described as an irreversible investment decision. In our model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872204
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Managing migration through conflicting policies : an option-theory perspective
Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - In: Scottish journal of political economy : the journal of … 57 (2010) 3, pp. 318-342
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971038
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Immigration in a high unemployment economy : the recent Danish experience
Pedersen, Peder J. - 2000
decades. The directly job-related part of migration can not be identified precisely. A survey of research results indicate net … migration flows towards other OECD countries is sensitive to cyclical indicators and thus mainly labour market related. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335235