Geographic Labor Markets, Aging and Migration: A Panoramic Perspective

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Roger R. Stough ◽  
Karima Kourtit ◽  
Peter Nijkamp ◽  
Uwe Blien
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
And Migration

Labor Markets and Migration

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Martin
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Labor Migration ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Migration Process ◽  
And Migration ◽  
R Functions

Labor markets have the three R functions of recruiting workers, remunerating them to encourage them to perform their jobs satisfactorily, and retaining experienced and productive workers. Employers in one country and jobs in another complicate these three Rs, especially recruitment, which is why both employers and workers often turn to private recruiters to act as intermediaries between jobs and workers. Recruiters are most deeply involved in the second phase of the four-phase labor migration process—matching workers with jobs. Indeed, the fact that recruiters rarely visit the workplaces to which they send workers, and do not always expect to send more workers to particular employers, reduces their incentives to make good worker–job matches.

Trade and Labor Market Dynamics: General Equilibrium Analysis of the China Trade Shock

Econometrica ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 87 (3) ◽  
pp. 741-835 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Caliendo ◽  
Maximiliano Dvorkin ◽  
Fernando Parro
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
Equilibrium Analysis ◽  
Trade Model ◽  
China Trade ◽  
Transition Costs ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Labor Market Dynamics ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Labor Dynamics

We develop a dynamic trade model with spatially distinct labor markets facing varying exposure to international trade. The model captures the role of labor mobility frictions, goods mobility frictions, geographic factors, and input‐output linkages in determining equilibrium allocations. We show how to solve the equilibrium of the model and take the model to the data without assuming that the economy is at a steady state and without estimating productivities, migration frictions, or trade costs, which can be difficult to identify. We calibrate the model to 22 sectors, 38 countries, and 50 U.S. states. We study how the rise in China's trade for the period 2000 to 2007 impacted U.S. households across more than a thousand U.S. labor markets distinguished by sector and state. We find that the China trade shock resulted in a reduction of about 0.55 million U.S. manufacturing jobs, about 16% of the observed decline in manufacturing employment from 2000 to 2007. The U.S. gains in the aggregate, but due to trade and migration frictions, the welfare and employment effects vary across U.S. labor markets. Estimated transition costs to the new long‐run equilibrium are also heterogeneous and reflect the importance of accounting for labor dynamics.

Frozen and Stalled? Gender and Migration Scholarship in the 21st Century

2017 ◽  
Vol 61 (10) ◽  
pp. 1079-1085 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katharine M. Donato ◽  
Laura E. Enriquez ◽  
Cheryl Llewellyn
Keyword(s):  
Labor Markets ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Dynamic Interactions ◽  
Gender And Migration ◽  
And Migration

Gender and migration is a complex relationship, involving dynamic interactions between women and men, embedded in a variety of institutions (families, labor markets, and others) that all vary across different periods of historical time. Although many studies in the field of gender and migration have appeared since the late 1970s, few contemporary migration scholars centrally integrate gender into their work. In 2006, Donato and colleagues called for advancing this field of research. Now, more than a decade later, studies have incorporated various methods and approaches, but despite some momentum, most recent books and articles about migration still do not explicitly integrate gender. In this introduction, we set the stage for research and findings that bridge this gap and appear in this special issue. We preview findings from these studies, suggesting that a gender analytical framework is essential to understanding migration in the 21st century.

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