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Our paper studies the causes of poverty from the perspective of job search. We show that poor people remain poor because they have less time and initial endowment to search for a better job. Initial endowment is key to successful job search, as one can afford not to work and search longer for a...
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heterogeneity, endogenous skill acquisition, differential search cost between immigrants and natives, capital-skill complementarity … and different degree of substitutability between unskilled natives and immigrants. Within such a framework, we find that … wages. Nevertheless, in one version of the model, where unskilled workers and immigrants are imperfect substitutes, we find …
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States, within a search and matching model that allows for skill heterogeneity, differential search cost between immigrants … workers and immigrants are imperfect substitutes, we find that even the skilled wage may have risen. …
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sequential geographic mobility. By means of a matching procedure we quantify wage premia associated with the choice of studying …
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Hedonic analysis is frequently implemented to generate implicit prices for location-specific amenities within single markets, either in cross-city wage differentials or within-city rent gradients. Amenities are shown to be generally priced in both land and labor markets, with single market...
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relationship between that misperceptions about immigrants an immigration and discrimination against immigrants in labor market. Our …Using the European Values Survey (EVS) data, this article focuses on attitudes towards immigrants and particularly the …, including crime, labor market and public finances play a key role in the individuals’ preference for discrimination. …
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relationship between that misperceptions about immigrants an immigration and discrimination against immigrants in labor market. Our …Using the European Values Survey (EVS) data, this article focuses on attitudes towards immigrants and particularly the …, including crime, labor market and public finances play a key role in the individuals’ preference for discrimination. …
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We investigate the effects of US immigration on native workers in a search and matching environment that allows for skill heterogeneity, differential search cost, cross-skill matching and imperfect transferability of human capital across borders. We find that cross-skill matching benefits the...
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to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …
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Since 2002, the British Government department responsible for immigration, the Home Office, has claimed immigrants pay … additional infrastructure investments that immigrants necessitate (no small omission). The conventional wisdom is that funding … business assets that immigrants necessitate. The important distinction is not between public and private sector assets, but …
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