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The Impact of Resident Status Regulations on Immigrants' Labor Supply: Evidence for France
Jarreau, Joachim - HAL - 2014
Many OECD countries have changed the rules for immigrants in recent decades, generally making harder to enter and to stay. France is one example. This paper studies the immigrants' response to the 2004 reform of the immigration law, which made it harder for foreigners to obtain resident status....
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Credit Constraints and the Persistence of Unemployment
Dromel, Nicolas; Kolakez, Elie; Lehmann, Etienne - HAL - 2009
In this paper, we argue that credit market imperfections impact not only the level of unemployment, but also its persistence. For this purpose, we first develop a theoretical model based on the equilibrium matching framework of Mortensen and Pissarides (1999) and Pissarides (2000) where we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738519
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Is Formal Employment Discouraged by the Provision of Free. Health Services to the Uninsured ? Evidence From a Natural Experiment in Mexico
Valle, Alejandro Del - HAL - 2013
This article analyzes whether the large scale provision of non-contributory health services encourages workers to move away from jobs that pay contributions to social security (formal employment). Using a difference-in-differences design, that exploits the variation generated by the municipal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738932
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Competition and the Ratchet Effect
Charness, Gary; Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie-Claire - HAL - 2011
The 'ratchet effect' refers to a situation where a principal uses private information that is revealed by an agent's early actions to the agent's later disadvantage, in a context where binding multi-period contracts are not enforceable. In a simple, context-rich environment, we experimentally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008792254
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Migrants as second-class workers in urban China? A decomposition analysis
Démurger, Sylvie; Gurgand, Marc; Shi, Li; Ximing, Yue - HAL - 2008
In urban China, urban resident annual earnings are 1.3 times larger than long term rural migrant earnings as observed in a nationally representative sample in 2002. Using microsimulation, we decompose this difference into four sources, with particular attention to path dependence and statistical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930208
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Les effets de la migration sur le chômage marocain : une analyse en équilibre général calculable statique
Karam, Fida; Decaluwé, Bernard - HAL - 2007
La littérature économique récente sur l'impact de la migration sur le pays d'origine n'a pas réussi à analyser l …'effet de la migration sur le chômage et le taux de salaire surtout dans les zones urbaines. A l'aide d'un MEGC détaillé …'émigration marocaine vers l'Union Européenne, l'immigration subsaharienne vers le Maroc et la migration rural-urbain, l'impact sur le taux …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750487
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Do Migrants Follow Market Potentials? An Estimation of a New Economic Geography Model
Crozet, Matthieu - HAL - 2004
migration data for five European countries over the 1980s and 1990s to perform quasi-structural estimations of a new economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750495
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When Migrant Remittances Are Not Everlasting, How Can Morocco Make Up?
Karam, Fida - HAL - 2008
impact of immigration restrictive policies and permanent migration on the future evolution of remittances. Then I ask what …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750968
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Migration Impact on Moroccan Unemployment : a Static Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
Decaluwé, Bernard; Karam, Fida - HAL - 2008
Recently, much research interest is directed towards the impact of migration on the sending country. However, we think … that this literature does not successfully analyse the effects of migration on unemployment and wage rates especially in … urban areas. It studies the effect of one king of migration flow, mainly international migration, on labour market in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738500
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Labour Standards and Migration : do labour conditions matter ?
Bazillier, Rémi; Moullan, Yasser - HAL - 2009
We study in this paper the interactions between migration rates and the level of labour standards. We use an augmented … is that the differential of working conditions may be a complementary determinant of migration. In a first time, we test … use a bilateral migration database built by Marfouk and Docquier (2004) in order to test the influence of labour standards …
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