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It is widely debated whether immigrants who live among co-ethnics are less willing to integrate into the host society … immigrants’ inter-ethnic contact networks and social activities, we are able to identify the causal effect of ethnic … concentration on social integration. The exogenous placement of immigrants “switches off” observable and unobservable differences in …
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We examine peer effects in welfare use among immigrants to Sweden by exploiting a governmental refugee placement policy …
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associated with early kindergarten attendance, particularly for immigrants. Time of tracking loses statistical significance when …
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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …
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This paper sheds new light on the effects of the minimum wage on employment from a two-sided theoretical perspective … incentives and increase job acceptance incentives. We show that sufficiently low minimum wages may do no harm to employment …
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generalized anxiety disorder detract from the employment and labor force participation of males and females; however, we do not … addressing the potential endogeneity of mental illness, we continue to find that mental illness adversely affects employment and … gains in employment for 3.2 million individuals and reduction in workplace cost of absenteeism of $18.9 billion due to …
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by behavioral adjustments yet which are of considerable importance to one’s quality of life: employment, earnings and …
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. But with rapid technological change, gains in youth employment from vocational education may be offset by less … adaptability and thus diminished employment later in life. To test our main hypothesis that any relative labor-market advantage of … vocational education decreases with age, we employ a difference-in-differences approach that compares employment rates across …
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transfer pricing by the host country affect investment and employment of foreign subsidiaries. The results indicate that …
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We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature …, we find a significant and negative employment effect for male workers at 21, which we believe to be an anticipation … effect on employment of young workers, with this effect possibly occurring already well in advance of reaching the threshold …
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