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We develop a general equilibrium model of technological change and migration to examine the effects of a change in skill endowments on wages, employment rates and emigration rates of skilled and unskilled workers. We find that, depending on the elasticity of substitution between skilled and...
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unemployment duration in Germany. Due to substantial differences with respect to labour market outcomes we follow a stratified … approach with respect to gender and ethnicity. To analyze unemployment duration comprehensively, dynamic duration time models … are used in which covariate e.ects are allowed to vary smoothly with unemployment duration and others enter the model in …
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bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. We find that wage flexibility is substantially higher in the UK compared … to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment rate …
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newcomers. This social phenomenon and affects wages and unemployment. We show that the growth in the unemployment and social …
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cycle component. We find significantly larger unemployment responses to economic shocks for low-skilled workers relative to …
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-skilled labor markets, increasing unemployment of native low skilled. Legalization, instead decreases the unemployment rate of low …
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