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Legal U.S. immigration : influences on gender, age, and skill composition
Greenwood, Michael J.; McDowell, John M. - 1999
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001393057
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Immigration and Entrepreneurship
Fairlie, Robert W.; Lofstrom, Magnus - CESifo - 2015
attempt to attract immigrant entrepreneurs. Not surprisingly, a large body of research on immigrant entrepreneurship has … fundamental immigrant entrepreneurship issues as well as the empirical methods and data used. The main themes we address are … immigrant entrepreneurs’ contributions to the economy, entrepreneurship differences across groups and group differences in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257678
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How do Migrants Choose their Destination Country? An Analysis of Institutional Determinants
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2008
immigrant networks and negative effects of unemployment rates. In addition, we find that employment protection, union coverage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094404
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to four major OECD Countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2008
Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406154
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The Effect of Shocks to Labour Market Flows on Unemployment and Participation Rates
Dixon, Robert; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - CESifo - 2014
This paper presents an analysis of labour market dynamics, in particular of flows in the labour market and how they interact and affect the evolution of unemployment rates and participation rates, the two main indicators of labour market performance. Our analysis has two special features. First,...
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Resurrecting the Participation Margin
Ebell, Monique - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
This paper considers a real business cycle model with search frictions in the labor market and labor supply which is elastic along the participation margin. Previous authors have found that such models generate counterfactually procyclical unemployment and a positively-sloped Beveridge curve....
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Unemployment and Hours of Work: The North Atlantic Divide Revisited
Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
I examine the dynamic evolutions of unemployment, hours of work and the service share since the war in the United States and Europe. The theoretical model brings together all three and emphasizes technological growth. Computations show that the very low unemployment in Europe in the 1960s was...
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Analysis of Labor Tax Progression under Heterogeneous Domestic Labor Markets and Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2010
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep the relative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case of heterogeneous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor and perfect competition in high-skilled...
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Outsourcing and Labor Taxation in Dual Labor Markets
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2008
We evaluate the effects of international outsourcing and labor taxation on wage formation and equilibrium unemployment in dual labor markets. Outsourcing promotes wage dispersion between the high-skilled and low-skilled workers. Higher domestic low-skilled wage tax, higher payroll tax and lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765774
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Flexible Outsourcing and the Impacts of Labour Taxation in European Welfare States
Koskela, Erkki; Poutvaara, Panu - CESifo - 2008
In European Welfare States, low-skilled workers are typically unionized, while the wage formation of high-skilled workers is more competitive. To focus on this aspect, we analyze how flexible international outsourcing and labour taxation affect wage formation, employment and welfare in dual...
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