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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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Technological progress and economic geography

Tabuchi, Takatoshi; Thisse, Jacques-François; Zhu, Xiwei - 2014

New economic geography focuses on the impact of falling transport costs on the spatial distribution of activities. However, it disregards the role of technological innovations, which are central to modern economic growth, as well as the role of migration costs, which are a strong impediment to...

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Heterogeneous firms and substitution by tasks : the productivity effect of migrants : paper prepared for the ERSA Congress 21- 25 August 2012, Bratislava

Haas, Anette; Lucht, Michael - 2012

Economic debate about the consequences of immigration in Germany has largely focused on the wage effects for natives at an aggregate level. Especially the role of imperfect substitutability of migrants and natives gained importance. A new topic is to focus on the firm level by estimating...

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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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Wage gaps and migrantion costs : an analysis from simulation data

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

Borjas (1987, 1991 and 1994) developed the self-selection theory, applying Roy's model (1951) to migration studies. He … the individual investment decision theory (Human Capital theory), applying simulated data by Monte-Carlo method. The … theory of individual investment decisions allows us to analyze self-selection patterns across differences in wages and …

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Agglomeration, congestion, and regional unemployment disparities

Zierahn-Weilage, Ulrich - 2011

Regional labor markets are characterized by huge disparities of unemployment rates. Models of the New Economic Geography explain how disparities of regional goods markets endogenously arise but usually assume full employment. This paper discusses regional unemployment disparities by introducing...

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Welfare magnets, taxation and the location decisions of migrants to the EU

Nowotny, Klaus - 2011

Migrants are among the groups most vulnerable to economic fluctuations. As predicted by the 'welfare magnet' hypothesis, migrants can therefore be expected to--ceteris paribus--prefer countries with more generous welfare provisions to insure themselves against labor market risks. This paper...

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Migration and the diffusion of knowledge in a globalized economy

Groot, Stefan P. T. - 2011

This paper considers diversity of the knowledge of expats as a complementary dimension of human capital that may generate spillovers. Such, often intangible, knowledge about foreign markets, management skills, and other complementary information may enhance the productivity of these expats, or...

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Economic migration with matching frictions and business cycle amplification

Lozej, Matija - In: Understanding migration with macroeconomics, (pp. 223-249). 2020

Migration interacts with the domestic labour market through the increase in labour supply from immigration when labour market conditions improve and labour market tightness increases. Lozej studies the amplification mechanism that arises when there are search frictions, as it becomes more...

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Does openness lead to sustained economic growth? : export growth versus other variables as determinants of economic growth

Ramanayake, Sanika Sulochani; Lee, Keun - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 20 (2015) 3, pp. 345-368

This research revisits the issue of economic growth determinants in developing countries with a focus on international integration variables. Four alternative variables are tested, namely, export growth, trade openness, export diversification, and foreign direct investment (FDI), in a single...

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