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employment levels. It had instead adverse employment and wage effects on previous waves of immigrants. This stems from the fact … whereas new and old immigrants exhibit perfect substitutability. Our analysis suggests that if the German labor market were as …
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to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …
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This paper investigates whether a public sector premium exists after controlling for observable characteristics and for additional motivations, other than monetary, that may induce workers to prefer employment in the public sector. We study the entire conditional wage distribution on Italian...
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In this paper I analyse the use and compensation of fixed-term and on-call employment contracts in the Netherlands. I use an analytical framework in which wage differentials result from two types of uncertainty. Quantity uncertainty originates from imperfect foresight in future product demand. I...
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We evaluate the public-private wage differential in ten euro area countries for men in the period 2004-2007. Using the most recent methodologies on a Mincerian equation, we assess how much of the pay differential between public and private sector workers depends on differences in endowments and...
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’ of the decline in native-born employment following a 1 percent increase in the number of immigrants is a mere 0 …
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This paper investigates the relationship between native internal mobility and immigration in Italy, in order to gain a …-demographic composition of the local population. Native mobility is examined both with respect to residential displacements across regions and …, immigrant concentration in the northern regions has partially substituted the traditional South-North mobility of less …
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immigrants, especially if one meets (non-western) foreigners at work and school. Contact with foreigners while going out … decreases the preference for immigrants. The ethnic composition of the neighbourhood in which one lives does not ex! ert a …
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immigrants residing in Lombardy during the period 2001-2005. We use a recent dataset collected by the NGO ISMU, which includes … the alien or by a possible self-selection in the labour supply. Moreover, although more talented immigrants tend to self … natives. We also show that a certain heterogeneity exists across educational levels and countries of origin: immigrants from …
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unemployment. …
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