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This Paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex-Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …
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In this article, I study the effect of worker heterogeneities on wages and unemployment within the context of a …
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In this paper we look at the effects of immigration and trade with Eastern Europe on unemployment in Austria. Using … possible detrimental impacts in unemployment entry effects and unemployment duration effects. We find that unemployment entry … does not seem to be strongly affected by the recent increase in the flow of immigrants. This is different from the …
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efficacy of vocational education in raising the wage levels of four such groups: recent immigrants, Jews of Eastern origin …
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(especially that of the former Yugoslavia). We concentrate on entry into unemployment of young male workers who are thought to … compete most with new immigrants. Our results indicate that the detrimental impact -- if it exists at all -- is only minor and …
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natives. Simple labour supply analysis demonstrates that these effects depend upon whether immigrants and natives act as … foreign workers in the firm. Employing many immigrants in the firm, on the other hand, may also have an increasing effect on …
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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 labour market were …
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Increasing earnings inequality has been an important feature of the US and UK labour markets in recent years. The increase appears to be related to an increased demand for skilled labour and an increase in the returns to education. In this paper we examine what has happened to earnings...
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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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Women in Britain who work part-time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less than that of women working full-time. This gap has widened greatly over the past 30 years. This paper tries to explain this part-time pay penalty. It shows that a sizeable part of the penalty can be explained by...
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