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The paper analyses the role of the relative regional group size for the labor market integration of three different ethnic groups in Germany. The analysis addresses the question of whether there is a consistent group size effect, or if group size functions differently for different immigrant...
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This note demonstrates that when developing countries remove barriers to migration and integrate their labour markets …
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When communism collapsed many feared that the resulting 'brain drain' would both cripple the economies of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe, and finally result in a flow of scientific and technical expertise into undesirable weapon development. A collaborative survey carried out in ten...
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migrants. Despite the potential for increased migration to fill skill gaps, immigration policies and attitudes to immigrants …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue on “Disadvantaged workers in the labour market” and to draw some policy implications that are common to the studies included in the special issue. Design/methodology/approach – The paper introduces several econometric...
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The Productivity Commission release its research report into the ‘Economic Impacts of Migration and Population Growth …’ in May 2006. According to the Commission’s findings increasing skilled migration would make a positive, but small …. To assess the effect of skilled migration, the Commission estimated the economic effects of a simulated permanent …
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inter-relations of employment, unemployment, labour force participation and migration to see how a change in region … permanent effect. Migration is more important in the region-specific case where, after a few years, it gets a large role in the …
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While general ethnic disadvantages are well documented, much less is known about coinciding disadvantages of ethnic origin and gender. Based on theoretical arguments of human capital theory, sociocultural approaches, labour market segmentation theory, and discrimination mechanisms, we...
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