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Ethnic Enclaves and Welfare Cultures – Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Åslund, Olof; Fredriksson, Peter - CESifo - 2005
We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy. We distinguish between the quantity of contacts—the number of individuals of the same ethnicity—and the quality of contacts – welfare use among members of the ethnic...
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Labor Demand and the Structure of Adjustment Costs
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1988
This study examines the nature of the costs that firms face in adjusting labor demand in response to shocks induced by changes in output demand and prices. Empirical work on monthly plant-level time-series data shows that adjustment proceeds in jumps. Employment is unchanged in response to small...
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Partial Adjustment without Apology
King, Robert G. - 2003
Many kinds of economic behavior appear to be governed by discrete and occasional individual choices. Despite this, econometric partial adjustment models perform relatively well at the aggregate level. Analyzing the classic employment adjustment problem, we show how discrete and occasional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468751
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Occupational Labor Shortages: Concepts, Causes, Consequences, and Cures
Barnow, Burt S.; Trutko, John; Piatak, Jaclyn Schede - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
Barnow, Trutko, and Piatak focus on whether persistent occupation-specific labor shortages might lead to inefficiencies in the U.S. economy. They describe why shortages arise, the difficulty in ascertaining that a shortage is present, and how to assess strategies to alleviate the shortage.
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Social Ties and the Job Search of Recent Immigrants
Goel, Deepti - 2009
We show that increasing the probability of obtaining a job offer through a network should raise the observed wages of workers in jobs found through formal channels relative to those in jobs found through the network. This prediction holds at all percentiles except the highest and lowest. The...
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The Analytics of the Wage Effect of Immigration
Borjas, George J. - 2009
The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …
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The Labor Demand Curve is Downward Sloping : Reexamining the Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market
Borjas, George J. - 2003
Immigration is not evenly balanced across groups of workers that have the same education but differ in their work … market impact of immigration by exploiting this variation in supply shifts across education-experience groups. I assume that … substitutes. The analysis indicates that immigration lowers the wage of competing workers: a 10 percent increase in supply reduces …
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Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2014
to date in understanding the impact of high skilled immigration from the perspective of the firm and the open areas that … call for more research. Since much of the U.S. immigration process for skilled workers rests in the hands of employer firms …
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Enclaves, Language and the Location Choice of Migrants
Bauer, Thomas; Epstein, Gil S; Gang, Ira - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005114322
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An Incentive Theory of Matching
Brown, Alessio J G; Merkl, Christian; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper presents a theory explaining the labor market matching process through microeconomic incentives. There are heterogeneous variations in the characteristics of workers and jobs, and firms face adjustment costs in responding to these variations. Matches and separations are described...
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