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The rise of the free movements : how posting shapes a hybrid single European labour market
Mussche, Ninke; Corluy, Vincent; Marx, Ive - 2016
migration improves the allocation of human capital in the EU and contend that the level of permanent‐type labour mobility is … the posting flows more generally. One of the reasons for this is the fact that data on posting are still scarce. This … article aims to fill this gap by exploring unique posting data for Belgium. Based on these data we argue that while the free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581638
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The mobility challenge for growth and integration in Europe
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
value of labor mobility for economic prosperity and its determinants. Labor migration and not welfare migration dominates … the future a much higher level of circular and permanent migration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128229
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Secondary education and international labor mobility : evidence from the natural experiment in the Philippines
Sakai, Yoko; Masuda, Kazuya - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/10, pp. 1-22
International labor mobility is a key factor for a well-functioning labor market. Although educational attainment is known to affect regional labor mobility within a country, evidence of a relationship between schooling and international labor mobility is limited, particularly in developing...
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Spatial wage gaps and frictional labor markets
Heise, Sebastian; Porzio, Tommaso - 2019
quantify three distinct barriers that prevent East Germans from migrating west to obtain a higher wage: migration costs …
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The welfare magnet hypothesis and the welfare take-up of migrants : welfare benefits are not a key determinant of migration
Giulietti, Corrado - 2014
Contrary to the welfare magnet hypothesis, empirical evidence suggests that immigration decisions are not made on the basis of the relative generosity of the receiving nation's social benefits. Even when immigrants are found to use welfare more intensively than natives, the gap is mostly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416301
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Post-enlargement emigration and new EU members' labor markets : outmigration has contributed to increasing wages and decreasing unemployment in the new EU member states but may als...
Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2014
The recent EU enlargements into Central and Eastern Europe and increased labor mobility within the Union provide a unique opportunity to evaluate the labor market effects of emigration. Outmigration has contributed to higher wages for stayers, as well as to lower unemployment in the source...
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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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Eastern partnership migrants in Germany : outcomes, potentials and challenges
Biavaschi, Costanza; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 7, pp. 1-20
) countries, very little is known about the magnitude and characteristics of migration from these countries. We find that EaP … to unleash the potential of migration for the German economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010532218
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Eastern partnership migrants in Germany : outcomes, potentials and challenges
Biavaschi, Costanza; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2013
) countries, very little is known about the magnitude and characteristics of migration from these countries. We find that EaP … to unleash the potential of migration for the German economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229297
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Mobility within Europe : what do we (still not) know?
Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2002
Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed … migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. This paper identifies the salient questions to be … addressed by any educated migration policy. It embeds this discussion into a systematic classification of economic migration …
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