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Demographics, Labor Mobility, and Productivity

Wilson, E. J.; Jayanthakumaran, K.; Verma, R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012

to collect better information on migration and for wage premiums and discounts to be estimated across sectors and … appropriate migration policies. Whilst it is possible to share the burdens of ageing and dependency through migration, this will … not happen under present arrangements. Migration cannot continue to be treated differently to trade and finance. A …

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Demographics, Labor Mobility, and Productivity

Wilson, E. J.; Jayanthakumaran, K.; Verma, R. - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012

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Land Use Rights, Market Transitions, and Labor Policy Change in China (1980-4)

Chen, Yiu Por - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in … intraprovincial non-hukou rural-urban migration, which may have made labor retention policies such as the small township strategy …

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Income of immigrants and their return

Bijwaard, Govert - In: IZA World of Labor (2015) April, pp. 1-10

The majority of immigrants stay only temporarily in the host country. When many migrations are temporary, it is important to know who leaves and who stays, and why. The key questions for the host country are whether immigrants are net contributors to the welfare system and whether migrants...

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Leaning from multinational companies through hiring: An empirical investigation.

Ding, Ding - Centre of Excellence for Science and Innovation … - 2015

Labor mobility is mechanism for transfer the technology and innovation from multinational firms (MNEs) to non-multinational firms (non-MNEs). In this paper, we use a unique employer-employee data set in Sweden to provide individual-firm match dataset. Using the special research framework, we...

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On the industry experience premium and labor mobility

Vilalta-Bufi, Montserrat - Facultat d'Economia i Empresa, Universitat de Barcelona - 2008

There is evidence that experience premium differs across industries. We propose a theoretical model for explaining these differences. We assume that labor mobility brings external knowledge to the firm, which increases its productivity. We find that industry experience premium is decreasing in...

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International Migration and the Propagation of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa

DOCQUIER, Frédéric; VASILAKIS, Chrysovalantis; MUNSI, … - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011

In this paper, we identify and quantify the role of international migration in the propagation of HIV across sub …-Saharan African countries. We use a panel database on bilateral migration flows and HIV prevalence rates covering 44 countries over …

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How does Economic Integration Change Personal Income Taxation? Evidence from a new Index of Potential Labor Mobility

Protte, Benjamin - Abteilung für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Universität Mannheim - 2012

In this paper, I estimate the effect of increasing labor mobility on personal income tax schedules. I combine rich data on effective personal income tax levels in a panel of OECD countries for the period 1986-2005 with a new Index of Potential Labor Mobility. This index allows to tackle issues...

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Does Emigration Benefit the Stayers? Evidence from EU Enlargement

Elsner, Benjamin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Around 9% of the Lithuanian workforce emigrated to Western Europe after the enlargement of the European Union in 2004. I exploit this emigration wave to study the effect of emigration on wages in the sending country. Using household data from Lithuania and work permit and census data from the UK...

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Recent immigrants as labor market arbitrageurs: Evidence from the minimum wage

Cadena, Brian C. - In: Journal of Urban Economics 80 (2014) C, pp. 1-12

This paper investigates the local labor supply effects of changes to the minimum wage by examining the response of low-skilled immigrants’ location decisions. Canonical models emphasize the importance of labor mobility when evaluating the employment effects of the minimum wage; yet few studies...

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