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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - CESifo - 2012
data on West Germany are used and we exploit the expansionary family policy during the late 1980s and 1990s for … identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers’ wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645655
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Emigration of Skilled Labor under Risk Aversion: The Case of Medical Doctors from Middle Eastern and North African Economies
Driouchi, Ahmed; Kadiri, Molk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
capital that remains in the source country. The effects of relative wages in the destination and sending countries besides the … relative wages besides the level of education and the attitude toward risk as determinants of the emigration of skilled labor … economy with the increase of health demand, the domestic wages and the increase in education capacity for medical doctors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008595632
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An Analysis of the Underlying Causes of the Poor Performance of Recent Immigrants Using the 2006 Census PUMF and Some Observations on Their Implications for Immigration Policy
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper examines the poor performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Statistics Canada Census 2006 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). It presents the data which shows that immigrants from less developed countries are doing much worse than immigrants from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008532162
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An analysis of the poor performance of recent immigrants and observations on immigration policy
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines the poor performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Statistics Canada Census 2006 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). It presents the data which shows that immigrants from less developed countries are doing much worse than immigrants from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009132745
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How are the Children of Visible Minority Immigrants Doing in the Canadian Labour Market?
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines the performance of the children of immigrants (2nd generation immigrants) to Canada using data from the 2006 Census. As the composition of immigration inflows has shifted after 1980 from the traditional European source countries to the Third World, the analysis focuses on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008833277
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Conservative Immigration Policy Reform Has Not Yet Produced Any Significant Improvement in the Aggregate Labour Market Performance of Recent Immigrants
Grady, Patrick - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper examines the performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB), which is an administrative database constructed by Statistics Canada by combining an administrative landing file from Citizenship and Immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109516
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Immigration, Trade and Wages in Germany
Yaya, Mehmet-Erdem - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
regressions, trying to capture the effect of these variables on the real wages and salaries in Germany while considering the … emigration on the real wages and salaries of German laborers. Annual data for 49 years has been used to estimate twelve different … unification of West-East Germany with a dummy variable. The results are intriguing, and contradicting with most of the earlier …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619638
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Wages and Recruitment: Evidence from External Wage Changes
Falch, Torberg - CESifo - 2013
This paper estimates the causal effect of the wage on the recruitment rate at the establishment level. During the 1990s, the wage setting for certified teachers in Norway was completely centralized, with a wage premium of about 10 percent at schools with severe recruitment problems in the past...
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Do reticent managers lie during firm surveys?
Clarke, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
their firms pay higher wages than other firms. This is consistent with previous studies that have found that they also … report better performance. Second, it shows that workers at firms with reticent managers report lower, or similar, wages to … is, reticent managers in Nigeria report paying higher wages but they are not doing so. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260647
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Decent work in Bulgaria
Beleva, Iskra; Tzanov, Vasil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
, working time, wages, health and safety at work place, access to training, conciliation of work and family, as well as some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322879