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continuum of tasks in each sector and we augment it to include immigrants with heterogeneous productivity in tasks. We use this …-savings" effect they may leave unaffected, or even increase, total native employment of less skilled workers. Our model also predicts … positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has …
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We measure how the bundling of television channels affects welfare. We estimate an industry model of viewership, demand, pricing, bundling, and input market bargaining using data on ratings, purchases, prices, bundles, and input costs. We conduct simulations of à la carte policies that require...
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This paper discusses some recent advances in the area of culture and economics and examines the effect of culture on a key economic outcome: female labour supply. To separate the effect of market variables and institutions from culture, I use an epidemiological approach, studying...
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The social contract of the welfare state can be strained by the arrival of immigrants who receive welfare payments … financed by citizens' taxes. We show, however, that the presence of unemployed immigrants receiving welfare payments is …
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This paper develops a descriptive methodology for the analysis of wage growth of immigrants, based on human capital … non-linear model which is estimated, using repeated cross-section data. Using data on immigrants from the former Soviet … Union to Israel, we find that upon arrival, immigrants receive no return for imported skills. In the five years following …
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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 …-employed individuals and understand their underlying drive into self-employment. At the same time we investigate how immigrant …
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This paper attempts to disentangle the direct effects of experience from those of culture in determining fertility. We use the GSS to examine the fertility of women born in the US but from different ethnic backgrounds. We take lagged values of the total fertility rate in woman’s country of...
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In this paper, we investigate whether there is a double-negative effect on the wages of immigrant women in Denmark …
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Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals’ behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...
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that ethnic minorities do want to change their situation, especially in terms of employment, education, housing and …
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