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This paper examines the migration and labor mobility in the European Union and elaborates on their importance for the … that migration is beneficial is broken. This comes with a crisis of European institutions in general. Migration and labor … survive or collapse even if it solves its migration challenge. But it will most likely collapse, if it fails to solve the …
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This chapter discusses the research in economics on refugees and asylum seekers. Section 1 describes the trends in asylum seeking by source and host country. Section 2 presents a conceptual framework on why refugees might differ from other types of immigrants, and provides a new analysis...
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equilibria: some countries have mostly temporary migration programs and see a low degree of cultural assimilation by the migrants …This paper examines the role of cultural factors in driving the politics and shape of migration policy. We show that … shortage in the economy. We show that countries that are poor at cultural assimilation are better positioned to take advantage …
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This paper documents assimilation of immigrants in European destinations along cultural, civic, and economic dimensions … assimilation may have multiple facets, and take place at different speed depending on the outcome in question. While assimilation … dimension is not necessarily a handicap, or an impediment, for assimilation on other grounds. Correlation of immigrants …
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In this note we analyze how aging affects immigration policy. We set up a dynamic political-economy model of representative democracy in which the government of the destination country sets the immigration level to maximize aggregate welfare of the constituency. Aging, i.e. a decline in the...
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We consider a tax-funded policy of admitting and integrating asylum seekers in a country in which the incomes of the native inhabitants are differentiated; for the sake of simplicity, we assume that there are just two groups of native inhabitants: high-income natives and low-income natives. As a...
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We consider a tax-funded policy of admitting and integrating asylum seekers in a country in which the incomes of the native inhabitants are differentiated; for the sake of simplicity, we assume that there are just two groups of native inhabitants: high-income natives and low-income natives. As a...
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in their effective hours of labor when they move to the United States; (iii) migration reduces inequality, more …
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-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …
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Die internationale Migrationspolitik ist in Bewegung geraten. Die Europäische Kommission will mit der Einführung einer "Bluecard" die Zuwanderung von qualifizierten Arbeitskräften nach Europa erleichtern. Damit will sie angesichts des sich langfristig noch verstärkenden Fachkräftemangels in...
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