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Labour Migrant Adjustments in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis
Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
after the crisis. Although we find that negative labour demand shocks raise the probability of return migration, the …
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China's 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and Implications for China's Workers
Gallagher, Mary; Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009-2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made substantial efforts to enforce the provisions of the new...
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Immigrants, Labor Market Performance, and Social Insurance
Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using longitudinal data from the date of arrival, we study long‐term labor market and social insurance outcomes for all major immigrant cohorts to Norway since 1970. Immigrants from high-income countries performed as natives, while labor migrants from low‐income source countries had...
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Reflexionen zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Die Erwerbsgesellschaft der Zukunft bietet neben neuen Risiken und neuer Unübersichtlichkeit vor allem vielfältige neue Chancen. Um sie bestmöglich zu nutzen, brauchen Gesellschaft, Wirtschaft und Politik ein neues Denken und Handeln, das die Familienfreundlichkeit der Arbeitswelt viel...
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Human Capital Mobility: Implications for Efficiency, Income Distribution, and Policy
Wildasin, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the …
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The IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey: A Scientific Use File
Arni, Patrick; Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This reference paper describes the sampling and contents of the IZA Evaluation Dataset Survey and outlines its vast potential for research in labor economics. The data have been part of a unique IZA project to connect administrative data from the German Federal Employment Agency with innovative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884147
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Ambient Temperature During Gestation and Cold-Related Adult Mortality in a Swedish Cohort, 1915 to 2002
Bruckner, Tim A.; den Berg, Gerard J. van; Smith, Kirk R.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
For all climatic regions, mortality due to cold exceeds mortality due to heat. We examine whether cold-related mortality in adulthood varies positively with unusually benign ambient temperature during gestation, using data on over 13,500 Swedes from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study born in...
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Globalization and Wage Convergence: Mexico and the United States
Gandolfi, Davide; Halliday, Timothy J.; Robertson, Raymond - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Mexico and the US. First, we find no evidence of long-run wage convergence among cohorts characterized by low migration … convergence for workers with high migration propensities. Finally, we find evidence of convergence in the border of Mexico vis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884169
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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States
Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
The question of whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market is an important criterion for an … new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour market shocks. We find that recent migration flows have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884205
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Migration and Cross-Border Financial Flows
Kugler, Maurice; Levintal, Oren; Rapoport, Hillel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
of migration in alleviating information imperfections between home and host countries. We show that the impact of … migration on financial flows is strongest where information problems are more acute (that is, for more informational sensitive … information in generating home-bias and as new evidence of the role of migration in reducing information frictions between …
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