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Book Reviews Finite State Morphology

Finite-state technology (FST) is a general term for the use of finite-state automata and transducers in computational linguistics and natural language processing (NLP). FST is very versatile, having been used very successfully for describing the phonology, orthography, and morphology of a large number of languages, as well as for solving practical problems such as morphological analysis and gen...

Social networks and unraveling in labor markets

This paper studies the phenomenon of early hiring in entry-level labor markets (e.g. the market for gastroenterology fellowships and the market for judicial clerks) in the presence of social networks. We o¤er a two-stage model in which workers in training institutions reveal information on their own ability over time. In the early stage, workers receive a noisy signal about their own ability. T...

Migration into the Welfare State: Tax and Migration Competition 1

I. Introduction Restrictions on the international mobility of labor are arguably the single largest policy distortion that besets the international economy. A variety of studies suggest that even a small reduction in barriers to migration will result in large welfare benefits to the global economy. In this lecture I focus on a central tension faced by policy makers in countries that receive mig...

Welfare Migration in Europe and the Cost of a Harmonised Social Assistance

Welfare Migration in Europe and the Cost of a Harmonised Social Assistance The enlargement of the European Union has increased concerns about the role of generous welfare transfers in attracting migrants. This paper explores the issue of welfare migration across the 15 countries of the pre-enlargement Union and finds a significant but small effect of the generosity of welfare on migration decis...