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Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...
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We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment substantially. Although many cross-border workers were highly...
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What is the effect of opening the labor market to foreign workers on the success of firms? We address this question by analyzing how firms in Switzerland were affected by the introduction of the free movement of persons with the European Union (EU) countries. This immigration reform granted all...
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confirm the importance of wage differentials in determining such mobility. Furthermore, an increased skilled out-migration …
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A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid social humiliation. In a general … equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between … two identical economies. Migration increases the number of individuals who choose to perform degrading jobs and …
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migration from new EU members countries, we find moderate negative wage effects, combined with increased unemployment for some …
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-country migration policies across Europe and (ii) that the European Union needs to become an active player on the international labour …
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The purpose of this paper is to review what has been learnt about Irish migration from the work of social scientists …
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different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we find that migration within …
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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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