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This paper examines the role of labor market frictions and moving costs in explaining the migration behavior of US … estimate a dynamic model of individual labor supply and migration decisions. The model incorporates a reduced-form search model … and allows for migration for non-market reasons. My estimates show that moving costs are substantial and that labor market …
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important communication routes, and has a long history of migration. Europe’s historically established migrations patterns … has been carried out by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), establishing migration centres in Macedonia …
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determinants and human capital on migration and vice versa. The period under analysis is 2005-2019 and considers mobility from five …
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a taxi driver's license to individuals who have not yet done so, we find that both immigrants and natives who enter into … taxi driving have experienced negative employment trends. However, after passing the written taxi exams, immigrants … for recently arrived immigrants. We also find evidence in favor of immigrants having poorer outside options in the labor …
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immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with … otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries, with good German language skills … gap. Immigrants are initially less likely to participate in the labor market and more likely to be unemployed. While …
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Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and their adaption in the … migration process is likely to be quite different. The gap is closed by examining social assimilation and the effect on the …
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Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and their adaption in the … migration process is likely to be quite different. The gap is closed by examining social assimilation and the effect on the …
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international migration. Examining social identity and labor market outcomes in China, the country with the largest internal …
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of labor market status. The results indicate that domestic migration is partial beneficial for immigrants to obtain …The aim of the paper is to analyse immigrants' participation versus non-participation in the regional labour markets … and/or in education. For comparison we have followed groups of immigrants by their reason for immigration, like refugees …
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The main aim of this article is to identify certain specificity in self-employment of foreigners in EU countries and to find out whether the differences in self-employment of foreigners between countries are diminishing. Within the main objective, we have set two sub-objectives. The first...
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