Showing 1 - 10 of 65,671
Migration, both within and beyond borders, has become an increasingly prominent theme in domestic and international … capabilities is extraordinarily unequal, and that this is a major driver for movement of people. Migration can expand their choices … by policy distortions, is a theme of the report. The report investigates migration in the context of demographic changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008467225
[...]Although our analysis compares outcomes before and afterPRWORA, it should be made clear that because the formalstate plan for welfare reform did not take effect until 1999, weare not really evaluating welfare reform in New York City.Instead, our results primarily reflect the net effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005869888
between population groups. The key to successful integration of migrants into the German society thus lies in the alleviation … of inequalities in respect to education, income and German language skills. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011601323
in die deutsche Gesellschaft liegt daher in der Verringerung der Ungleichheiten in Bezug auf Bildung und Einkommen. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602274
This paper investigates the effects of labor market integration, in the form of worker mobility, in a model with long-term labor contracts that lead to wage rigidities and unemployment. Reflecting the interdependence of regional labor markets, we develop a general-equilibrium framework where the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276568
Accepting that successful 'development' is premised on a population's participation in a collective undertaking, we … chauvinism and restrictive migration or anti-urbanization policies and practices. Drawing primarily on examples from Johannesburg …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280130
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008667943
suggest that ``trade and migration are substitutes,'' labor markets in both the US and Canada exhibit substantial and … persistent interregional migration, with gross migration rates that greatly exceed net migration rates, especially for highly …-educated workers. High gross migration rates are consistent with the hypothesis that education contributes to skill-specialization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005076579
the transitional economic environment and individual migration characteristics. The analysis finds a more limited role for … factors such as income and life cycle, which are central to housing choice in other contexts. We argue that migrants' housing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746332
in die deutsche Gesellschaft liegt daher in der Verringerung der Ungleichheiten in Bezug auf Bildung und Einkommen. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008752599