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research in Romania. At this time, migration and mobility are studied as minor subjects in Economics, Sociology, Political … view – social, economical, legal etc. Romania is part of the European Migration Space not only as a source of labourers for … located at the eastern border of the European Union, we consider Romania as part of the European area of freedom, security and …
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important role in the structure and dimension of the population of a country. Romania is not an exception to the previously … expressed statement; furthermore, after the fall of the communist regime, migration became for Romania one of the most important … phenomenon in Romania between 1991 and 2008, from quantitative perspective. Based on data identified in the \"Statistical …
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation which is rarely directly measured even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses two natural quasi-experiments to directly compare...
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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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In the contemporary world the intensity of the immigration movements is constantly increasing. Countries which experience great immigrant flows are facing numerous problems which should be solved. The article studies the current immigration flows in EU countries, the United States of America and...
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New Zealand immigration policy settings are based on the assumption that the macroeconomic impacts of immigration may be significantly positive, with at worst small negative effects. However, both large positive and large negative effects are possible. Reviewing the literature, the balance of...
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Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), trying to limit the immigrants' stock. On the other hand, there is an...
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This conceptual paper, prepared for a United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Migration and Development, is concerned with the international mobility of high-skilled workers, previously referred to as the brain drain. After discussing the historical background of high-skilled international...
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The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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The past several decades have witnessed a rebirth of global labor mobility. Workers have begun to move between countries at rates not seen since before World War One. During the same period, economists' study of international migration has been framed by a particular textbook model of location...
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