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to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …
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opening up for labour migration from non-EES/EU countries in December 2008. The changes have led to increased labour … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …
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Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...
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. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …
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. Chapter 2 quantifies non-pecuniary migration costs that are incurred due to selective migration along cultural traits. Chapter …
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. Chapter 2 quantifies non-pecuniary migration costs that are incurred due to selective migration along cultural traits. Chapter … Determinanten selektiver Migration beschäftigen sowie die Wichtigkeit selektiver Migration für die Zusammensetzung der arbeitenden …
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During the African American Great Migration, millions of blacks left the Southern USA in favor of cities in the North …. Despite the social and economic consequences of this migration, the question of its impacts on labor markets in the North has … aggregate Northern labor market to provide new evidence on the effects of the Great Migration on wages in the North, redoubling …
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This paper aims at disentangling the role played by different explanations on the urban wage premium along the wage distribution. We analyze the wage dynamics of migrants from lower to higher density areas in Italy, using quantile regressions and individual data. The results show that unskilled...
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estimate the migration potential after EU enlargement, econometric-based simulation models are used for the four most heavily …
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We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality increased in Honduras until 2005, while it was falling in most other Latin American countries. Using annual household surveys, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005,...
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