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, there are sufficient conditions for immigration to raise total employment. We then estimate the effects of immigration on …In this paper we construct a simple model of the effects of immigration on the labour market outcomes of natives. In … wages and employment of both types of workers across Spanish provinces following the lifting of some restrictions on …
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the determination of the size of the immigration flow given a fixed minimum wage and the level of unemployment in the … union objective function and on whether labour is heterogeneous, an optimal size of immigration may exist. These …
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This paper studies the effect of economic integration of two regions on the mobility of skilled and unskilled workers across regions and on the resulting location of industrial activity. In particular, it studies what happens when wages in both regions are set by the unions of the ‘West’ –...
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action; Employment impact of the Investment Plan; Need to lay the groundwork for a balanced and sustained strategy …; INTRODUCTION; A GROWTH, INVESTMENT AND EMPLOYMENT NEXUS IN THE EU:; 1 GROWTH AND EMPLOYMENT IN THE EU; Limited growth in the EU has …; ... and the recovery is losing momentum.; Figure 1 Economic and employment in the EU: Forecasts and performances; Figure 2 …
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reductions in other sectors. The union campaign aimed to increase employment through ‘work-sharing’, and is being emulated in the …
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The paper analyzes a variety of government policies that can stimulate employment when unemployment is generated … may be ineffective. We show how supply side policies can stimulate employment by raising worker productivity or reducing … effect on employment unless these policies stimulate labor productivity, the entry of firms, capital utilization or …
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lower unemployment. Whether ‘work-sharing’ works – whether employment rises when hours per worker are reduced – is … standard hours, employment rose by 0.3–0.7%, but that total hours worked fell by 2–3%, implying possible output losses. As a … group, however, workers were better off as the wage bill rose. The employment growth implied by the mean standard hours …
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