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that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
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This paper compares the cyclical behaviour of male real wages in Germany and the UK using the German Socio … unemployment rate as the cyclical measure, we find real wages of stayers in the private sector in West Germany - but not East … Germany - to be procyclical, and quite sensitive to unemployment, comparable to the US and the UK. We find cyclicality in the …
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Germany and the United Kingdom. Based on nationally representative longitudinal data, our results show that work …
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xenophobic feelings towards foreigners in general, and against specific groups such as Italians and Turks. We also analyze racist …. Education, and having contact with foreigners mitigate racist, anti-Semitic and xenophobic feelings. People who live in states … for German males, and they are not fully driven by fears about foreigners taking away jobs. The results of the paper are …
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be explained by the underlying transnational network contract. Second, remittances sent by foreigners and naturalized … reunification in the destination country and decreases remittances. Third, the structure of the existing social network in Germany …
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Switzerland, traditionally a ‘zero unemployment’ economy, has seen an unprecedented rise in joblessness in the 1990s although unemployment fell again to a rather low level after 1997. This paper tests whether Switzerland experienced a negative relative net demand shock against the low...
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revenue-increasing effect of a rise in tax rate. The migratory responses of foreigners and other age-education groups are even …
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In this paper we examine the fertility experience of immigrants during their first years in Canada. Fertility decisions …
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We consider changes in the distribution of hourly compensation in Canada using confidential census data and the recent …
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Using longitudinal data for Canada, we analyze the incidence and wage returns to employer supported course enrollment …
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