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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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Expectations, employment and prices: a suggested interpretation of the new 'farmerian' economics

Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper aims at providing a critical assessment of the new ‘Farmerian’ economics, i.e. the recent Farmer’s attempt to provide a new micro-foundation of the General Theory grounded on modern search and business cycle theories. Specifically, I develop a theoretical model that summarizes...

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Increasing returns in matching and labour market dynamics: Comments on indeterminacy and search theory

Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015

the social elasticity of the matching function with respect to unemployment. …

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A demand-driven search model with self-fulfilling expectations: The new `Farmerian' framework under scrutiny

Gelain, Paolo; Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

In this paper, we implement Bayesian econometric techniques to analyze a theoretical framework built along the lines of Farmer's micro-foundation of the General Theory. Specifically, we test the ability of a demand-driven search model with self-fulfilling expectations to match the behaviour of...

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On involuntary unemployment: notes on efficiency-wage competition

Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

This paper introduces a model of efficiency-wage competition along the lines put forward by Hahn (1987). Specifically, I analyse a two-firm economy in which employers screen their workforce by means of increasing wage offers competing one another for high-quality employees. The main results are...

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The Cyclical Volatility of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies: Evidence from Italy

Cardullo, Gabriele; Guerrazzi, Marco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

In this paper, we explore the fluctuations of unemployment and vacancies in the Italian labour market over the last … line with previous findings on the unemployment volatility puzzle, we find that the labour market tightness indicator is …

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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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