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This paper investigates the overlap between employment status and poverty, drawing particular attention to the working …
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associated with remaining disabled post-onset. We show that employment rates fall with disability onset, and continue to fall the …
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Growth of 'global cities' in the 1980s was supposed to have involved an occupational polarisation, including growth of low paid service jobs. Though held to be untrue for European cities, at the time, some such growth did emerge in London a decade later than first reported for New York. The...
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marriage, cohabitation and inter-marriage, fertility and the employment of women. In all these dimensions we find that the …
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analyses many different aspects of this phenomenon, the economic performance of migrants with respect to the Mexican labour … generally higher likelihood of non employment during the period of return migration. Finally, the gains from temporary migration …
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, ethnicity might affect positively innovation via ‘star’ migrants, network externalities from co-ethnic groups, or production …
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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 performance of non-migrants had they decided to migrate and return? Both …
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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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degree of screening of migrants by the host country is limited and that the possibility of migration actually encourages home …
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wages, employment, occupations and locations of blue-collar native workers. The natives in the sample are initially in … positively selected natives towards occupations with less routine tasks. While we find no negative impact on employment, there is …
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