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Migration and wage-setting: reassessing the labor market effects of migration
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - 2009
This paper employs a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany. The wage-setting framework relies on the assumption that wages tend to decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This enables us to consider labor market rigidities, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265224
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Migration and Wage-Setting: Reassessing the Labor Market Effects of Migration
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009
This paper employs a wage-setting approach to analyze the labor market effects of immigration into Germany. The wage-setting framework relies on the assumption that wages tend to decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This enables us to consider labor market rigidities, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700587
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Migration and the Wage Curve : A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on … wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously in a general equilibrium framework. For the empirical analysis we … vocational degree. The wage and employment effects of migration are moderate... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860260
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Living with the neighbors: The effect of Venezuelan forced migration on the labor market in Colombia
Peñaloza-Pacheco, Leonardo - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-32
I estimate the effect of the Venezuelan exodus on the Colombian labor market. The economic and social crisis in Venezuela triggered one of the most important migratory exoduses in recent decades: more than 4 million Venezuelans left their country and close to 1.8 million arrived in Colombia. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285066
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Living with the neighbors: The effect of Venezuelan forced migration on wages in Colombia
Peñaloza Pacheco, Leonardo - 2019
The aim of this paper is to estimate the causal effect of the migration of Venezuelans to Colombia on the Colombian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164624
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Living with the neighbors : the effect of Venezuelan forced migration on wages in Colombia
Peñaloza Pacheco, Leonardo - 2019
The aim of this paper is to estimate the causal effect of the migration of Venezuelans to Colombia on the Colombian …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012029807
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Authoritarianism and labor market : preference of labor policies in the Arab Gulf countries
Matsuo, Masaki - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
Migrant and labor issues are a primary concern in the Arab Gulf countries. With focus on the economic and political conditions that influence actors' decisions when framing labor policies, this study analyzes how preferences of such policies are formed and explains why the governments of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011234993
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Living with the neighbors : the effect of Venezuelan forced migration on the labor market in Colombia
Peñaloza-Pacheco, Leonardo - In: Journal for labour market research 56 (2022) 1, pp. 1-32
I estimate the effect of the Venezuelan exodus on the Colombian labor market. The economic and social crisis in Venezuela triggered one of the most important migratory exoduses in recent decades: more than 4 million Venezuelans left their country and close to 1.8 million arrived in Colombia. I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013368665
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Potential emigration of Latvian labour force after joining the EU and its impact on Latvian labour market
Hazans, Mihails - Baltic International Center for Economic Policy Studies … - 2003
during the transition period as well as in the years to come. Updated inter-regional migration rates show that Latvian … countervailing factors; outflow rates tended to be larger from high unemployment regions. Analysis of individual migration decisions … made in 1989-1999 and migration plans for 1999-2002 confirms significance of economic incentives for geographical mobility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010658667
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The distributional effect of a massive exodus in Latin America and the role of downgrading and regularization
Lombardo, Carlo; Martinez-Correa, Julian; … - 2021
The massive displacement of Venezuelan citizens to Colombia is the second most important episode of forced migration in … heterogeneity in the intensity of migration. We use RIF regressions in an instrumental variables approach to account for the non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014327926