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When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State
Bratsberg, Bernt; Raaum, Oddbjørn; Røed, Knut - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
We find that the lifecycle employment profiles of nonwestern male labor migrants who came to Norway in the early 1970s diverge significantly from those of native comparison persons. During the first years after arrival almost all of the immigrants worked and their employment rate exceeded that...
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Cream-Skimmer or Underdog? Labor Type Selectivity, Pre-Program Wage, and Rural Labor Training Program Outcome
Chen, Yiu Por - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The mismatch between laborer's abilities and the target subject of the training program is one of the most primary concerns for a labor training program. The ability of different workers may significantly affect the outcomes of a labor training program. The objective of this paper is to look at...
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Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia: Results from a Pilot Project in Vietnam
Dinh, Ngan; Hughes, Conor; Hughes, James W.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Human trafficking is one of the most widely spread and fastest growing crimes in the world. However, despite the scope of the problem, the important human rights issues at stake and the professed intent of governments around the world to put an end to "modern day slavery", there is very little...
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The Impact of Refugee Crises on Host Labor Markets: The Case of the Syrian Refugee Crisis in Turkey
Akgündüz, Yusuf Emre; van den Berg, Marcel; Hassink, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
The civil war in Syria has culminated into major refugee crises in its neighboring countries. By the end of 2013 more than half a million people were seeking shelter in cities and refugee camps in Turkey. We analyze how the Syrian refugee influx in Turkey has affected food and housing prices,...
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Documentation IZAΨMOD v3.0: The IZA Policy Simulation Model
Loeffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
most other microsimulation tools. A demand module takes into account possible restrictions of labor demand and identifies …
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The Own-Wage Elasticity of Labor Demand: A Meta-Regression Analysis
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Firms' labor demand responses to wage changes are of key interest in empirical research and policy analysis. However …, despite extensive research, estimates of labor demand elasticities remain subject to considerable heterogeneity. In this paper …, we conduct a comprehensive meta-regression analysis to re-assess the empirical literature on labor demand elasticities …
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Labor Demand Effects of Rising Electricity Prices: Evidence for Germany
Cox, Michael; Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
cross-price elasticities of labor demand with respect to electricity prices between 0.09 and 0.31. In case of adjustable ….69. Labor demand is affected differently across skill levels with low- and high-skilled workers being affected more than medium …
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Exporting and Labor Demand: Micro-Level Evidence from Germany
Lichter, Andreas; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
workers. One mechanism explaining this relationship is given by the long-standing Hicks-Marshall laws of derived demand: with … international trade increasing competition and therefore the price elasticity of product demand, exporters are predicted to have … higher labor demand elasticities. Our paper is the first to test this relationship empirically by analyzing the effects of …
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Do Hiring Credits Work in Recessions? Evidence from France
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane; Le Barbanchon, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper evaluates the impact of an unexpected temporary hiring credit targeted at workers paid below 1.6 times the minimum wage in firms with less than 10 employees in France from December 2008 to December 2009. Using rich administrative data covering all French firms, we find that the...
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Trade Adjustment: Worker Level Evidence
Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; Song, Jae - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We analyze the effect of exposure to international trade on earnings and employment of U.S. workers from 1992 through 2007 by exploiting industry shocks to import competition stemming from China's spectacular rise as a manufacturing exporter paired with longitudinal data on individual earnings...
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