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Occupational choice of migrants : does NEG tell something new?

Ivanova, Vera; Ushchev, Philip; Vakhitova, Hanna - 2015 - Very preliminary

We consider an empirical model in which individuals choose jointly their destination country and occupational choice. We plan to estimate this model using Ukrainian micro-data. The main results (to be yet obtained) will shed light on joint determinants of workers' migration decisions and their...

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Eastern European immigrants in the UK before and after the 2004 European enlargement

Longhi, Simonetta; Rokicka, Magdalena - 2012 - This version: 31 January 2012

The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries to the EU has generated concerns about the influx of low-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However, there is lack of recent systematic evidence on the level of...

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A cohort integration analysis of work and education participation among internal mobile and non-mobile immigrants by reason for immigration

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2016

The aim of the paper is to analyse immigrants' participation versus non-participation in the regional labour markets and/or in education. For comparison we have followed groups of immigrants by their reason for immigration, like refugees, labor-, family- and education-immigrants and Nordic...

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Skill wage gap in Brazil : 1980 - 2000

Freire, Tiago - 2011

distributed across individuals in society? If migrants have lower education levels, when compared to current urban workers, then … the in ow of migrants will increase the skill wage gap in urban areas. Previous work on this topic has focused on … regional policies can lead to an increase (or decrease) in the number of rural to urban migrants. We use data the Brazilian …

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Modelling migration and regional labour markets : an application of the new economic geography model RHOMOLOI

Brandsma, Andries; Kancs, D'Artis; Persyn, Damiaan - 2013

The present paper describes the modelling of regional labour markets in the newly developed dynamic spatial general equilibrium model RHOMOLO, where the labour market equilibrium is determined by firms' labour demand, a wage-curve determining unemployment, and interregional labour migration. The...

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Housing allocations and inequality in early and mid-reform urban China

Zax, Jeffrey S. - 2012

This paper demonstrates that subsidized housing substantially increased inequality among urban Chinese residents in 1988 and 1995. Regressions for 1995 rental units impute estimated market rents in 1988 and 1995 for all dwelling units. In both years, these imputed values exceeded actual rents by...

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Wage gaps and migrantion costs : an analysis from simulation data

Salazar-Ordóñez, Melania; García Alonso, Carlos Ramón; … - 2011

establishes that the characteristics of migrants in terms of skills and abilities are driven by wage distribution differences … disperse income distribution, a negative selection of migrants is generated, and vice versa. A great deal of literature has … studied Self-selection model to analyse how wage distribution influences migrants' decisions, leading to consistent and …

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Migration, allocation and re-allocation of immigrants in the regional labour markets

Stambøl, Lasse Sigbjørn - 2015

The aim of this paper is to analyse immigrants' mobility, both geographically and in terms of transitions into and out of the regional labour markets in Norway, in order to uncover the extent to which the workings of local labour markets contribute to integration versus exclusion. For...

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Labor market outcomes of highly educated immigrants : does your name matter?

Xu, Dafeng - 2015 - (Very preliminary version)

Prior empirical research shows that acculturation in the host country might be positively related to immigrants? labor market outcomes. However, whether acculturation helps highly educated immigrants in the labor market is in question, as they have completed a significant fraction of human...

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Does immigration fosters the Algerian exports? : a static and dynamic analysis

Hadjou, Lamara - 2015

Algeria has a large immigrant population. It is the third largest African community in the world after that of Egypt and Morocco. Its role in the international trade of Algeria has never been object of evaluation study. In line with the recent literature developed since the 1990s, through the...

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