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International trade and labor market integration of immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate … immigrants from that country. By hiring immigrants, a firm may access foreign knowledge and networks needed to overcome …, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We …
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Reflections on wage-setting
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2018
Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....
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Off to a bad start: youth nonemployment and labor market outcomes later in life
Filomenaa, Mattia; Giorgettia, Isabella; Picchio, Matteo - 2022
We estimate the effect of nonemployment experienced by Italian youth after leaving secondary school on subsequent labor market outcomes. We focus on the impact on earnings and labor market participation both in the short- and in the long-term, up to 25 years since school completion. By...
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Job location decisions and the effect of children on the employment gender gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an eventstudy design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
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The Labour Force Status of Transgender People and The Impact of Removing Surgical Requirements to Change Gender on ID Documents
Mann, Samuel - 2020
This paper uses data from the BRFSS over the period 2014-2019 to analyse the impact of removing surgical requirements to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive,...
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Marshallian vs Jacobs effects : which one is stronger? : evidence for Russia unemployment dynamics
Demidova, Olʹga Anatolʹevna; Kolyagina, Alena; … - 2019
Russian labour market, the unemployment growth. The purpose of the work is to find out which effects dominate in the Russian … were empirically tested: 1) the dependence of the unemployment rate on the degree of concentration or diversification is … concentration or diversification on the level of unemployment depends on the time period. To test these hypotheses nonparametric …
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Self-employment and Okun's law relationship : the Spanish case
Porras, Sylvina; Martín-Román, Ángel L. - 2017
The present research provides evidence on the determinants driving the differences in the unemployment …
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The motherhood penalty in China : having a child increases gender inequality in the labor market
Zhang, Mingxue; Hou, Lingling; Wang, Yue - 2022
Using a comprehensive individual panel dataset in China and an event study method, we examined the effects of having a child on gender inequality from the perspectives of labor market outcomes and its mechanisms. Results show that becoming a mother implies a sharp decline in labor earnings,...
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The impact of forced displacement on host communities : a review of the empirical literature in economics
Verme, Paolo; Schuettler, Kirsten - 2020
The paper reviews the literature that estimated the impact of forced displacement on host communities. A comparative analysis of the empirical models used in 59 studies and a meta-analysis of 972 results collected from these studies are the main contributions of the paper. Coverage extends to 19...
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What drives employment-unemployment transitions? : evidence from Italian task-based data
Cassandra, Nicola; Centra, Marco; Esposito, Piero; … - 2020
evidence of the determinants of unemployment risk in Italy. We find that workers employed in routine-intensive occupations … (measured with the RTI proposed by Acemoglu and Autor, 2011) do not display - on average - higher unemployment risks than the …. Finally, the distribution of unemployment risk and its relation with routine-task intensity varies significantly across …
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