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Do labour market conditions shape immigrant-native gaps in employment outcomes? : a comparison of 19 European countries

Markaki, Yvonni - 2014

regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … unemployment and underemployment. A higher union density appears to suppress wage differences across some immigrant groups, rather …

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Education and unemployment : a French-German comparison

Lauer, Charlotte - 2003

examines the impact of education on both risk components. France faces a higher unemployment rate than West-Germany, due to a …This paper analyses the link between educational attainment and unemployment risk in a French-German comparison, based … on a discrete time competing risks hazard rate model applied to comparable microdata sets. The unemployment risk is …

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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002 - November 1999 (revised: May 2002)

This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers' assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …

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Employed 40 hours or not-employed 39 : lessons from the 1982 mandatory reduction of the workweek

Crépon, Bruno; Kramarz, Francis - 2002

mandatory reduction of weekly working hours in France. Just after François Mitterrand's election in May 1981, the government … creation. These results should help us understand the possible effects of the upcoming mandatory reduction of hours in France … envisaged in other European countries, which hope that hours reductions will be an efficient policy for reducing unemployment. …

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When short-time work works

Cahuc, Pierre; Kramarz, Francis; Nevoux, Sandra - 2018

Short-time work programs were revived by the Great Recession. To understand their operating mechanisms, we first provide a model showing that short-time work may save jobs in firms hit by strong negative revenue shocks, but not in less severely-hit firms, where hours worked are reduced, without...

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