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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... …
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This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration byeducational attainment. We …
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This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect theprobability of high school graduation …
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This paper explores the effects of high and low skilled immigration to a hostcountry with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurancescheme. It is shown that the consequences for the labor market and the welfareof natives depend crucially on the host country's production structure....
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This paper assesses the consequences of EU enlargement for East West migration. In the theoretical part, we identify … several factors in addition to the reduction of moving costs by which EU membership influences migration. Specifically, EU … increased current migration. Additionally, casual evidence from the 1980s EU South enlargement is examined. Since then no …
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Does migration serve as an effective channel of regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks in transition economies? If … so, one should find a strong relationship between regional unemployment and average wages on the one hand, and migration … flows on the other. Yet, the evidence from transition economies indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing inter …
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the United Kingdom. it is a points-based immigration system which main objective is to attract high skilled immigrants … point system increases the average years of the immigrants by 3.5 years; (ii) the Mexican immigrants suffer a 10% reduction … in their effective hours of labor when they move to the United States; (iii) migration reduces inequality, more …
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This paper empirically analyzes the causal relationship between migration and human trafficking inflows into Germany … source country, increase the illicit, exploitative form of migration - human trafficking - from that respective country …
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This project focuses on comparing the qualification structure of migrants residing in Austria as well as their over- and underqualification rates to other EU countries. The skill structure of foreign born residing in Austria has improved slightly in the last years. Austria is, however,...
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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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