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Assimilation of immigrants in Spain: A longitudinal analysis

Izquierdo, Mario; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vegas, Raquel - Banco de España - 2009

migrants from outside the EU-15 in Spain. Using our panel dataset we show that immigrants reduce around the half of the initial … associate the improvement in the skill of immigrants to a change in the composition of new entrants. An important mechanism … underlying the assimilation is the higher likelihood of recent immigrants in changing jobs among different sectors and firms, but …

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Adjustment Costs, Uncertainty and Employment Inertia.

Bell, Una-Louise - Banco de España - 1996

Excessive levels of firing costs have been consistently blamed for the relatively weak employment in Europe, yet the concusions to be drawn from the literature are somewhat ambiguous. The paper re-examines the impact of adjustment costs under uncertainty.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022286

Another Look at Unemployment Duration: Long-Term Unemployment and Exit to a Permanent Job.

Bover, Olympia; Gómez, Ramón - Banco de España - 1999

In this paper we study first the determinants of unemployment duration distinguishing between exits to temporary and … permanent jobs. Second, we study the determinants of unemployment duration for long-term unemployed, allowing for exits to …

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Ethnic Concentration and Human Capital Formation

Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L.F. de - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary … externalities created by the influx of immigrants. Second, it presents a stylized model in which human capital accumulation and …

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Emigration and human capital: who leaves, who comes back and what difference does it make?

Lacuesta, Aitor - Banco de España - 2006

This paper studies the loss of human capital that emigration generates in the country of origin. To that end I estimate the human capital distribution of emigrants had they not migrated. Unlike previous studies, I take into account the selection of migrants in terms of unobserved characteristics...

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Returns for Entrepreneurs versus Employees: The Effect of Education and Personal Control on the Relative Performance of Entrepreneurs vis-à-vis Wage Employees

Praag, Mirjam van; Witteloostuijn, Arjen van; Sluis, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2009

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs’ performance as compared to employees’? What might explain any differences? And does education affect peoples’ occupational choices accordingly? We answer these questions based on a large panel of US labor force participants. We show that...

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Wage Dispersion in Russia

Grogan, L.A. - Tinbergen Institute - 1997

This paper examines the extent to which human capital theory can explain observed wage differentials in the Russian Federation. Wage and income dispersion have increased markedly in Russia in the six years since the transition began. Some studies conclude that this is an indicator that Russian...

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Unemployment Persistence, Central Bank Independence and Inflation Performance in the OECD Countries

Alberola, Enrique; Marqués, José M.; Sanchis, Alicia - Banco de España - 1997

We test the Barro-Gordon model extended to allow for persistence in unemployment. First, we build an index of central …

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Spanish Unemployment and Inflation Persistence: Are There Phillips Trade-Offs?

Dolado, Juan J.; López-Salido, J. David; Vega, Juan L. - Banco de España - 1997

This paper studies the joint behaviour of inflation and unemployment in Spain over the period 1964-1995. We analyze the … implications both of full hysteresis in unemployment and high inflation persistence for inference regarding dynamic Phillips trade …

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A Comparative Analysis of the Aggregate Matching Process in France, Great Britain and Spain

Bell, Una-Louise - Banco de España - 1997

Recent research attempting to understand the behaviour of unemployment, and more generally the labour market itself …

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