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In this note, we study the relationship between the use of new technologies (e.g. robots and various ICT assets), labour demand and migration patterns. The adoption of new technologies might change the demand for labour in various ways, which in turn will have an impact on skill composition and...
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options to counter demographic trends can be split into four main areas higher productivity, immigration, activity rates, or … questions, and potentially inter-generational conflict. Policy discussions are likely to centre ever more on immigration, how to …
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This paper claims that the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) of the EU, and in particular the elements related to justice and home affairs (JHA), is a complex, multilayered initiative that incorporates different logics and instruments. To unravel the various layers of the policy, the paper...
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international trade, a series of recent empirical econometric studies show that immigration has contributed to the rise of extreme … immigration and that of extreme right-wing parties. Exploiting French presidential elections from 1988 to 2017, we show that the … positive impact of immigration on votes for extreme right-wing parties is driven by low-skilled immigration and immigration …
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German immigration policies aim at attracting highly-skilled foreigners from countries outside the European Union to … selective steering of immigration. The study describes recent patterns of migration and analysis the strategies applied by other … countries to increase the immigration of foreign skilled labour. The findings lead to the conclusion that the recent …
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In this study we analyse the labour market performance of Romanian and Bulgarian return migrants and whether it really pays off to return home. We looked at the employment dynamics of returnees from the perspective of employment and occupational status switches to capture the effects of the work...
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This project focuses on comparing the qualification structure of migrants residing in Austria as well as their over- and underqualification rates to other EU countries. The skill structure of foreign born residing in Austria has improved slightly in the last years. Austria is, however,...
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Studies regarding the migrants' impact upon performance variables and in particular upon productivity growth - which is the focus of this study - are few although there has been an increased interest in this area. This study addresses this issue in a cross-country and regional perspective with a...
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In Switzerland a sudden policy uncertainty shock happened in February 2014 with the close and largely unexpected acceptance of a referendum aiming at limiting free movement of persons. The referendum requires Switzerland to reintroduce annual quotas for immigrants within three years. The...
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Vor dem Hintergrund des demografischen Wandels gewinnt Zuwanderung als Teil einer gezielten Fachkräftesicherungspolitik zunehmend an Bedeutung. So können bereits heute viele inländische Unternehmen nicht alle ihre offenen Stellen mit einheimischen Fachkräften besetzen. Allerdings stellt sich...
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