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This paper investigates the impact of skilled immigrants on the welfare the host natives. By employing the idea of …
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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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Economic growth and unemployment exhibit an ambiguous relationship – according to empirical studies. This ambiguity can …, unemployment may be absorbed by underground firms, which adopt backward technology, at the cost of reduced economic growth …. Alternatively, unemployment diminishes because productivity grows by employing workers who prefer to become skilled, and thus not to …
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or sexual discrimination …
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This paper proposes and tests empirically a model of optimal job search using novel data on job seeking strategies of participants in the labor market for MBA graduates. Theoretically and empirically I find that the breadth of search that workers conduct depends on their ability, outside option,...
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Age, education, income discrepancy, and unemployment level are the main factors that define the portrait of the Kyr …
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This paper examines the poor performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the … Statistics Canada Census 2006 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). It presents the data which shows that immigrants from less … developed countries are doing much worse than immigrants from industrialized countries. Using regression analysis it shows that …
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Concentration of immigrants and its associated externalities have become an important topic in contemporary … externalities created by the influx of immigrants. Second, it presents a stylized model in which human capital accumulation and …
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This study identifies and evaluates determinants of employees’ job and residential mobility. It examines mobility of … regarding the effect of salary on interfirm mobility were inconclusive. A long commuting distance encourages (simultaneous) job … and housing mobility, while being situated in the municipality of a large city encourages employees to either change jobs …
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This paper examines the poor performance of recent immigrants to Canada in the labour market as revealed in the … Statistics Canada Census 2006 Public Use Microdata File (PUMF). It presents the data which shows that immigrants from less … developed countries are doing much worse than immigrants from industrialized countries. And unlike previous studies, it focuses …
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