This paper investigates whether employer sanctions for hiring undocumented workers introduced by the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) adversely affected the hourly earnings of Latino workers in the southwestern U.S. We exploit the staggering of the sanctions and employee...

Open and flexible labor markets foster growth, development and integration in Europe. The single European labor market is still a vision, however, whereas the core challenge is a lack of sufficient mobility. The presentation discusses the value of labor mobility for economic prosperity and its...

This paper uses the first wave of Understanding Society, the UK Household Longitudinal Study (UKHLS), to assess whether or not male migrant workers in the UK are more likely to be over-qualified than the UK born. It also explores whether immigrants from different countries and arriving under...

We evaluate the importance of spillover effects of national migration policies by estimating the effect of stricter rules on family reunification in Denmark in 2002 on migration to neighboring countries. We reach two main conclusions. First, we show that stricter rules for reunification lead to...

In den letzten Jahren ist eine sehr starke Zuwanderung aus den seit dem Jahr 2004 der EU beigetretenen Ländern nach Deutschland erfolgt. Lag die Gesamtzahl der Personen mit Staatsangehörigkeiten dieser Länder am 31.12.2015 noch bei 2,11 Millionen, waren es am 31.12.2019 mit 2,86 Millionen...

In den nächsten Jahren wird Deutschland in zunehmendem Maß auf Fachkräfte aus dem Ausland angewiesen sein, um zu vermeiden, dass es durch das Ausscheiden der geburtenstarken Jahrgänge der Babyboomer am Arbeitsmarkt zu Lücken kommt, die Wachstum und Wohlstand gefährden. Gleichzeitig...

Vor dem Hintergrund des Ausscheidens der geburtenstarken Jahrgänge der Babyboomer aus dem Arbeitsmarkt wird Deutschland in den nächsten Jahren in zunehmendem Maße auf Fachkräfte aus dem Ausland angewiesen sein, um Wachstum und Wohlstand zu sichern. Gleichzeitig schreitet der demografische...

We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing countries. We use a three-state correlated competing risks model to account for the strong dependence of labor market status and the income earned. Our analysis is based on...

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...

Using a synthetic control estimation strategy we examine the economic impact of a large inflow of people from Puerto Rico into Orlando in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico in September 2017. We find that aggregate employment in Orlando increased as a result of the...