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Occupational Sorting and Wage Gaps of Refugees
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2020
Refugee workers start low and adjust slowly to the wages of comparable natives. The innovative approach in this study using unique Swedish employeremployee data shows that the observed wage gap between established refugees and comparable natives is mainly caused by occupational sorting into...
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Occupational Sorting and Wage Gaps of Refugees
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2020
Refugee workers start low and adjust slowly to the wages of comparable natives. The innovative approach in this study using unique Swedish employeremployee data shows that the observed wage gap between established refugees and comparable natives is mainly caused by occupational sorting into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232944
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Unemployment and health: a panel event study
Raftopoulou, Athina; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas - 2021
Adopting a panel event study framework, we estimate the effect of unemployment on health outcomes by exploiting the … variation in the timing of entering unemployment using longitudinal data for Greece. We find, that in the periods ahead of an … unemployment event, health outcomes decline and unmet needs for medical care increase. These findings are valid only for men and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012664291
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Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants: Lessons from Sweden
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2024
This paper examines the wage earnings of fully-employed previous refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative employer-employee data from 1990 onwards, about 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted asylum, are compared to a matched sample of...
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Hate at first sight? Dynamic aspects of the electoral impact of migration: The case of Ukip
Levi, Eugenio; Mariani, Rama Dasi; Patriarca, Fabrizio - 2019
In this paper, we test the hypothesis that the causal effect of immigrant presence on anti-immigrant votes is a short-run effect. For this purpose, we consider a distributed lag model and adapt the standard instrumental variable approach proposed by Altonji and Card (1991) to a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012022320
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The Urgent Need for an Economics of “Hategoatism”
Payson, Steven - 2019
The word “scapegoat” is defined as “a person made to bear the blame for others,” and similarly, “scapegoatism” refers to “the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself” (Collins English Dictionary and...
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Democracy and COVID-19 Outcomes
Karabulut, Gokhan; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bilgin, Mehmet … - 2021
More democratic countries are often expected to fail at providing a fast, strong, and effective response when facing a crisis such as COVID-19. This could result in higher infections and more negative health effects, but hard evidence to prove this claim is missing for the new disease. Studying...
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How education and GDP drive the COVID-19 vaccination campaign
Ngo, Vu M.; Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Nguyen, Phuc V.; … - 2021
Since vaccination is the decisive factor for controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, it is important to understand the process to vaccination success. We identify a variety of factors playing a crucial role including the availability of vaccines, pandemic pressures, economic strength (GDP),...
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Human Capital and Climate Change
Angrist, Noam; Winseck, Kevin; Patrinos, Harry Anthony; … - 2023
Addressing climate change requires individual behavior change and voter support for proclimate policies, yet surprisingly little is known about how to achieve these outcomes. This paper estimates causal effects of additional education on pro-climate outcomes using new compulsory schooling law...
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Protests, Long-term Preferences, and Populism. Evidence from 1968 in Europe
Fazio, Andrea - 2023
In 1968, young people grew up in an atmosphere of strong dissatisfaction and distrust against the status quo. We show that higher exposure to protests in 1968 leads to higher dissatisfaction toward national governments and raises the probability of voting for populist parties. Consistently with...
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