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Immigrants' and Natives' Unemployment-risk: Productivity Differentials or Discrimination?

Arai, Mahmood; Vilhelmsson, Roger - Stiftelsen facköreningsrörelsens Institut för … - 2001

Studying the unemployment risk during 1992 to 1995 for a sample of employees in 1991, we find that immigrants from the … natives fails to explain the differences between immigrants and natives in unemployment risks. Our simulations indicate that … non-European countries run a risk of unemployment that is twice the corresponding risk for the native workers. There exist …

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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …

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Individual Wage Setting, Efficiency Wages and Productivity in Sweden

Lundborg, Per - Stiftelsen facköreningsrörelsens Institut för … - 2005

Swedish wage setting has undergone drastic changes during the last 10-15 years. While Sweden was known for its narrow wage distribution, wage differentiation and wage bargaining at the individual level has become leading principles among white-collar workers’ unions. The purpose of the present...

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Compensation of On-call and Fixed-term Employment: the Role of Uncertainty

Graaf-Zijl, Marloes de - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

In this paper I analyse the use and compensation of fixed-term and on-call employment contracts in the Netherlands. I use an analytical framework in which wage differentials result from two types of uncertainty. Quantity uncertainty originates from imperfect foresight in future product demand. I...

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Inward FDI and Demand for Skills in Sweden

Roger, Bandick; Hansson, Pär - Stiftelsen facköreningsrörelsens Institut för … - 2005

We observe a substantial increase of foreign ownership in Sweden in the 1990s. Did that have any effect on relative demand for skilled labor? Has technology transfers often associated with inward FDI led to increased demand for skills due to skilled-biased technical change? Are there any grounds...

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How Long Does it Take to Integrate? Employment Convergence of Immigrants and Natives in Sweden.

Nekby, Lena - Stiftelsen facköreningsrörelsens Institut för … - 2002

This study examines employment convergence between immigrants and natives, by gender and region of origin, using data … greater explanatory power for East- and non-European immigrants. Assuming homogeneous human capital and time effects …

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The Fallacy of “Job Robbing”: A Meta-Analysis of Estimates of the Effect of Immigration on Employment

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Institute - 2006

’ of the decline in native-born employment following a 1 percent increase in the number of immigrants is a mere 0 …

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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

immigrants, especially if one meets (non-western) foreigners at work and school. Contact with foreigners while going out … decreases the preference for immigrants. The ethnic composition of the neighbourhood in which one lives does not ex! ert a …

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The Desire for Impact

Dur, Robert; Glazer, Amihai - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

unemployment. …

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Regional Wage Differences in the Netherlands: Micro-Evidence on Agglomeration Externalities

Groot, Stefan P.T. de; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Smit, Martijn - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

Based on micro-data on individual workers for the period 2000-2005, we show that wage differentials in the Netherlands are small but present. A large part of these differentials can be attributed to individual characteristics of workers. Remaining effects are partially explained by variations in...

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