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Immigration, Endogenous Technology Adoption and Wages

Ray Chaudhuri, A.; Pandey, Manish - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2015

We document that immigration to U.S. states has increased the mass of workers at the lower range of the skill … distribution. We use this change in skill distribution of workers to analyze the effect of immigration on wages. Our model allows … firms to endogenously respond to the immigration-induced changes in skill distribution in terms of their decisions (i) to …

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The Educational Attainment of Second Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands

van Ours, Jan; Veenman, J.M.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2001

Since the mid-1960's the Netherlands has had an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey … and Morocco and immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam.Immigrants have a weak labor market position, which is …

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A Life-Cycle Model of Outmigration and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants in Germany

Bellemare, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

This paper estimates a structural dynamic life-cycle model of outmigration where, in each period, immigrants choose whether to work in the host country, not to work but remain in the host country, or outmigrate.The model incorporates several features of existing life-cycle theories of...

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The Netherlands : Old Emigrants - Young Immigrant Country

van Ours, Jan; Veenman, J.M.C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1999

Since the mid 1960s the Netherlands has an immigration surplus, mainly because of manpower recruitment from Turkey and … Morocco and because of immigration from the former Dutch colony of Surinam. Immigrant workers have a weak labour market …

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Economic Assimilation and Outmigration of Immigrants in West-Germany

Bellemare, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2003

By analyzing earnings of observed immigrants workers, the literature on the economic assimilation of immigrants has generally overlooked two potentially important selectivity issues.First, earnings of immigrant workers may di¿er substantially from those of non-workers.Second, earnings of...

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The Optimal Taxation of UnskilIed Labor with Job Search and Social Assistance

boone, jan; Bovenberg, A.L.Bovenberg - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2002

In order to explore the optimal taxation of low-skilled labor, we extend the standard model of optimal non-linear income taxation in the presence of quasi-linear preferences in leisure by allowing for involuntary unemployment, job search, an exogenous welfare benefit, and a non-utilitarian...

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At Whose Service? Subsidizing Services and the Skill Premium

van Groezen, Bas; Meijdam, Lex - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

In this paper we investigate the effects of subsidizing low-skilled, labourintensive services hired by high-skilled individuals in the presence of labour income taxation. Whether such a subsidy can be Paretoimproving depends crucially on the degree of substitutability of both types of labour in...

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Modeling Financial Incentives to get Unemployment Back to Work

boone, jan; van Ours, Jan - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2000

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Labor Tax Reform and Equilibrium Unemployment : A Search and Matching Approach

Heijdra, B.J.; Ligthart, J.E. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2004

The paper studies simple strategies of labor tax reform in a search and matching model of the labor market featuring endogenous labor supply.Changing the composition of the tax wedge|that is, reducing a payroll tax and increasing a progressive wage tax such that the marginal tax wedge remains...

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Labor Market Effects of Unemployment Insurance Design

van Ours, Jan; Tatsiramos, K. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2012

Abstract: With the emergence of the Great Recession unemployment insurance (UI) is once again at the heart of the policy debate. In this paper, we review the recent theoretical and empirical evidence on the labor market effects of UI design. We also discuss policy issues related to UI design,...

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