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"This paper explores the issue of discrimination against Asian migrants in the Australian labour market using a unique … panel data set, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia (LSIA). This paper estimates models of the probability of … significant "unexplained differences" for males that may be ascribed to "discrimination" against Asian migrants. However, the …
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receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …
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-person families receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment …
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This paper focuses on the entrepreneurial undertaking of immigrants and natives in Germany. We first study factors that … Germans. We find that the probability of self-employment increases significantly with age for all groups. For immigrants, the … over time. However, when immigrants have accumulated more years of residence in Germany, the likelihood is increasing again …
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Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings … unemployment duration was rather short, which may have prevented general capital from depreciating. However, the presence of large …
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This paper investigates the age-dependency of participation and unemployment by integrating job search with … that the age pattern of search unemployment does not match observed unemployment and we propose a new concept of 'voluntary …' unemployment that agrees well with observations. …
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increases in youth unemployment and youth participation in active labor market programs. The impact on unemployment rates by age … and education has been roughly proportional, however. The evolution of employment and unemployment does not offer much … ground for the popular hypothesis that the recent rise in unemployment is driven by large and pervasive shifts in the demand …
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previous jobs, and thus much more than they get in unemployment benefits. However, our results also show that some groups, such … demands may contribute to high unemployment. …
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unemployment, household care and disability to employment. Then we decompose the differences in expected duration between the …
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This paper investigates the role of skill depreciation in the relationship between work interruptions and subsequent wages. Using a unique longitudinal dataset, the Swedish part of the International Adult Literacy Survey, we are able to analyze changes in literacy skills for individuals as a...
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