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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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EU Mobility

Ritzen, Jozef M. M.; Kahanec, Martin; Haas, Jasmina - 2017

apprehensions on crowding out of less educated workers in the countries of destination and on welfare migration turned out to be by …

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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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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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A micro-funded theory of multilateral resistance to migration

Marchal, Léa; Naiditch, Claire - 2016

This paper provides a micro-funded theory of multilateral resistance to migration analyzing how financial constraints … determine migration trends. We build a RUM model in which we explicitly introduce the budget constraint in the migration … decision: individuals cannot afford migrating to a destination for which the migration cost (which depends on the immigration …

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Qualification structure, over- and underqualification of the foreign born in Austria and the EU

Huber, Peter; Nowotny, Klaus; Bock-Schappelwein, Julia - 2010

This project focuses on comparing the qualification structure of migrants residing in Austria as well as their over- and underqualification rates to other EU countries. The skill structure of foreign born residing in Austria has improved slightly in the last years. Austria is, however,...

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Freedom of movement for workers : relaxing immigration restrictions could greatly improve the well-being of people in developing countries, with little effect on wages

Kennan, John - 2014

Most developed countries have foreign aid programs that aim to alleviate poverty and foster economic growth in less developed countries, but with very limited success. A large body of evidence indicates that the root of the economic development problem is cross-country differences in the...

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How immigration grease is affected by economic, institutional and policy contexts : evidence from EU labor markets

Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2015

Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to test this hypothesis across various...

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Migration, migrants and policy in the United Kingdom

Hatton, Timothy J.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 1999

migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of … international migration and the factors influencing migration; the background to, and the development of, restrictions on … of migration on the economy at large are briefly discussed. …

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