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Why are higher skilled workers more mobile geographically?: the role of the job surplus
Amior, Michael - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2015
The skill gap in geographical mobility is entirely driven by workers who report moving for a new job. A natural explanation lies in the large expected surplus accruing to skilled job matches. Just as large surpluses ease the frictions which impede job search in general, they also help overcome...
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Change and continuity among minority communities in Britain
Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
There is widespread concern currently that some ethnic minority communities within Britain, especially Muslim, are not following the stereotypical immigrant path of economic and cultural assimilation into British society. Indeed, many seem to have the impression that differences between Muslims...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746409
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Self-selection and the performance of return migrants: the source country perspective
De Coulon, Augustin; Piracha, Matloob - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
In this paper, using the framework of a Roy theoretical model, we examine the performance of return migrants in Albania. We ask two main questions: (i) Had they chosen not to migrate, what would be the performance of return migrants compared to the non-migrants? and (ii) What would be the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746106
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The Beveridge curve
Yashiv, Eran - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
. The Beveridge curve depicts the steady state of the model, whereby inflows into unemployment are equal to the outflows …
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Scale effects in markets with search
Petrongolo, B; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Reduced- form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-structural model is developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for...
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Scale effects in markets with search
Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
higher post-unemployment wages but not faster matches, so aggregate matching functions are unaffected by scale. …
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Reservation wages and the wage flexibility puzzle
Koenig, Felix; Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment … occasionally renegotiated, unless the persistence in unemployment is implausibly low. We then provide some evidence that part of …
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The returns to temporary migration to the United States: evidence from the Mexican urban employment survey
Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Mexican migration to the United States has been a very important issue throughout the twentieth century, and its … migration to the United States has on labour market outcomes of Mexican workers. It uses data from the Mexican National Survey ….S. labour market than in the Mexican one during the period of migration. They also tend to work longer hours and face a …
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Ethnic inventors, diversity and innovation in the UK: evidence from patents microdata
Nathan, Max - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
‘ethnicity-innovation’ channels exist elsewhere? This paper investigates, using a new panel of UK patents microdata. In theory …, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …
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Immigration, diversity and the labour market outcomes of native workers: some recent developments
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
This brief essay provides a selective discussion of how in recent years economists in the neoclassical tradition have addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers’ labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses: the distinction between the displacement,...
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