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Spain: From massive immigration to vast emigration?
Izquierdo, Mario; Jimeno, Juan F.; Lacuesta, Aitor - In: IZA Journal of Migration 5 (2016) 10, pp. 1-20
total population. The rapid increase in unemployment associated with the Great Recession and the subsequent European debt … outflows. In this paper, we take on three tasks. First, we show that sensitivity of migration flows to unemployment is similar … emigration rates growing, thus counterbalancing the effects of outflows due to the recent fall in the unemployment rate. …
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Collective bargaining systems and macroeconomic and microeconomic flexibility: The quest for appropriate institutional forms in advanced economies
Addison, John T. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 5 (2016) 19, pp. 1-53
This paper addresses the design of the machinery of collective bargaining from the perspective of microeconomic and macroeconomic flexibility. In the former context, somewhat greater attention is given over to enterprise flexibility than external adjustment. In the latter context, close...
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Migration and Trade Union Rights
Baudassé, Thierry; Bazillier, Rémi - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 146 (2010) 4, pp. 677-707
We study in this paper both theoretically and empirically the influence of trade union rights in origin countries on bilateral migration flows. Theoretically, trade union rights are supposed to increase the bargaining power of workers. Alternatively, it may benefit only to formal workers if...
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The Approach of An Intelligent System for Stopping the Phenomenon of Migration of Young People During the Economic Crisis
Feraru, Petronela Daniela - In: CES Working Papers 4 (2012) 3, pp. 323-339
This study identifies and proposes the approach of a new intelligent system regarding stopping the phenomenon of migration of young people during the current economic crisis. We investigate the manner in which the labour market and the educational system in Romania can contribute to the option...
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First fired, first hired? Business cycles and immigrant labor market transitions
Xu, Huanan - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 19, pp. 1-36
monthly transitions among employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. Immigrants are found to be first fired and first … hired over the business cycle, and the aggregate unemployment gap is caused by immigrants' higher rates in the unemployment …
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Internal labour market mobility in 2005-2014 in Latvia: the micro data approach
Fadejeva, Ludmila; Opmane, Ieva - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 16 (2016) 2, pp. 152-174
. The survival analysis indicates that the flows from/to employment to/from unemployment in Latvia are determined by the …
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Language training for unemployed non-natives: Who benefits the most?
Kivi, Laura Helena; Sõmer, Marko; Kallaste, Epp - In: Baltic Journal of Economics 20 (2020) 1, pp. 34-58
This study evaluates the local language training aimed at the unemployed in Estonia during 2015-2016. The impact of training on employment probability and labour income is estimated by combining propensity score matching with coarsened exact matching. The impact on the probability of being...
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Skilled migration and the transfer of institutional norms
Beine, Michel; Sekkat, Khalid - In: IZA Journal of Migration 2 (2013), pp. 1-19
We examine two impacts of international emigration on the evolution of the institutions in the origin countries. The first impact concerns the influence of emigration per se (i.e. people who left the country can voice more or less from abroad). The second impact relates to the transfer of the...
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Unions and investment in intangible capital
Sulis, Giovanni - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
Although coverage of collective bargaining agreements has been declining for decades in most countries, it is still extensive, especially in non-Anglo-Saxon countries. Strong unions may influence firms’ incentives to invest in capital, particularly in sectors where capital investments are sunk...
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Tarifeinheit versus Tarifpluralität: Konfliktintensität von Verhandlungen
Lesch, Hagen - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 93 (2013) 11, pp. 765-770
Eine Auswertung von Tarifkonflikten in Deutschland zeigt, dass Spartengewerkschaften eine hohe Konfliktbereitschaft aufweisen. Treten mehrere konfliktfreudige Gewerkschaften bei einem Arbeitgeber in Konkurrenz, kumulieren sich die Konflikthandlungen. Im Extremfall gerät ein Arbeitgeber von...
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