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Quasi-experimental impact estimates of immigrant labor supply shocks: the role of treatment and comparison group matching and relative skill composition

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Kirdar, Murat G. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011

find a positive effect of repatriates on the unemployment of non-repatriates. In fact, in certain regions, a 10-percentage …-point increase in the share of repatriates in the labor force increases the unemployment rate of natives by 4 percentage points. When …

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Effects of Business Cycles on Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003

This study addresses the effects of macroeconomic conditions on the labour market outcomes of immigrants. It simultaneously identifies the separate effects of macro conditions at the time of entry to the labour market and at the time of the survey, while allowing for cohort effects. Also, for...

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Effects of Business Cycles on Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants

Aydemir, Abdurrahman - EconWPA - 2003

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Explaining the Deteriorating Entry Earnings of Canada’s Immigrant

Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Skuterud, Mikal - EconWPA - 2004

The study explores causes of the deterioration in entry earnings of Canadian immigrant cohorts by estimating an empirical specification that nests a number of competing explanations found in the Canadian literature. To do this, we use the pooled sample of Canadian-born and immigrant men employed...

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Foundations of the economic and social history of the United States: Apologia

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This set of three volumes argues that the mind – human consciousness – may be measured by considering mathematically the aggregate of that consciousness, i.e. social history. From this beginning theme of discussion three questions must arise. 1. How might this measurement be made? 2. Of what...

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Foundations of the economic and social history of the United States: Empirical

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

I argue that a form of consciousness may be found in American economic history, one which is both mathematically demonstrable and important. In this book I present a model of economic and political growth based upon systematic addition. We begin with a philosophic model of trade (pp. 34-46);...

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Okun’s Law as a Pi-to-1 ratio: A harmonic / trigonometric theory as to why Okun’s Law works

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

unemployment. This paper argues that this ratio is actually a Pi:1 proportion, heretofore unrecognized because it is displayed …

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Foundations of the economic and social history of the United States: Theoretical

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In sum, in these essays I explore the self-similarity between levels, the fractal structure of reality, through an investigation of an inherent and unavoidable uncertainty which is unique to each level. These essays will demonstrate that as each level struggles to resolve its own inherent...

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Predicting crises: Five essays on the mathematic prediction of economic and social crises

Albers, Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This volume – Predicting Crisis: Five Essays on the Mathematic Prediction of Economic and Social Crises – is the first of three sets of essays. In this first set the economic and social history of the United States is shown to be a “system of movement,” i.e. a logical and mathematic...

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Non-linear real exchange rate effects in the UK labour market

Legrenzi, Gabriella; Milas, Costas - EconWPA - 2004

affecting UK labour market conditions. When the real exchange rate is undervalued, short-run unemployment falls as firms respond … to an improvement in domestic competitiveness by increasing their demand for labour. The unemployment response to the … reflects monetary policy considerations, our results imply that unemployment can be targeted by economic policy. Our results …

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