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This paper studies the dynamic impact of mass migration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives’ labor market outcomes. Specifically, we attempt to distinguish between the short-run and long-run effects of immigrants on natives’ wages and employment. The transition of immigrants...
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This paper studies the impact of mass migration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives’ probability of moving from employment to non-employment in a segmented labor market that is defined by various combinations of schooling, occupation, industry, district of residence and...
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This paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the native-born. The exogeneity and the size of this inflow make it a "natural experiment" of macroeconomic proportions. An open-economy macroeconomic model is used to analyze this...
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impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …
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observed patterns of the fast decrease in unemployment as immigrants first find blue-collar jobs and attend training, followed …
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mainly from the impact of training on the job offer probabilities and, consequently, on unemployment, and not, as …
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This paper examines whether a greater concentration of foreigners increases the likelihood of unemployment in local …
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compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …
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immigrants arriving in Australia at the end of the 1990s. Moreover, approximately half of the fall in men’s unemployment rates … also stems from increases in productive skills, though the substantial decline in women’s unemployment rates are driven …
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