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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt : eine ökonomische Perspektive

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country's labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...

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Immigration, monopsony and the distribution of firm pay

Amior, Michael; Stuhler, Jan - 2023

effects are not inevitable, and may be ameliorated through policies which constrain firms' monopsony power over migrants. …

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International migratory agreements : the paradox of adverse interest

Alonso, José Antonio; Santos Arteaga, Francisco Javier - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 11 (2020) 1/20, pp. 1-29

This article seeks to explain the contradiction between the promises of welfare gains derived from the economic models recommending the removal of immigration restrictions and the realities experienced by countries attempting to apply restrictions to immigration flows. A formal model is built in...

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Can labour mobility reduce imbalances in the euro area?

Berger, Johannes; Strohner, Ludwig - 2022

Labour market developments in the Euro area diverged significantly since 2008. Economic literature frequently refers to labour mobility as pillar for the functioning of currency areas. Applying the CGE model PuMA, we quantitatively analyse to what extent labour mobility can contribute to...

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Income redistribution and self-selection of immigrants

Corneo, Giacomo; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2019

redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and …

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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy : Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data

Docquier, Frédéric - 2011

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

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Why Should We Restrict Immigration?

Caplan, Bryan - 2013

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On the Potential Interaction between Labour Market Institutions and Immigration Policies

Cigagna, Claudia - 2015

Using data on migration flows for a sample of 15 OECD countries over the period 1980-2006, we analyse the effect of unemployment and labour institutions such as employment protection legislation, coverage of unemployment benefits, minimum wages, union power and tax wedge on migration flows. We...

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Source country characteristics and immigrants’ optimal migration duration decision

Kırdar, Murat G. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

This paper examines how immigrants’ optimal migration duration in the host country responds to the purchasing power parity (ppp) and relative wages between the host and source countries. A theoretical model of joint migration duration and saving decisions reveals that the optimal migration...

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International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants

Lodefalk, Magnus - 2020

We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...

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