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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
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lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …
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This paper provides a detailed analysis on the incidence of the tax structure on the labor market. To do so it goes beyond the traditional examination of the 'level' effect of the fiscal wedge and considers a 'composition' effect defined as a payroll tax bias (PTB): the proportion of payroll...
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, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with … vacant skilled job slots can choose between recruitment from the market and training. Compared to Germany and Japan, the US …
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We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of … to the minimum in a reference year as to be illegal in an adjacent comparison year as a result of movements in the real …
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We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment … rate in Germany and Denmark, while the wage effects are larger in the UK. Moreover, the elasticity of substitution between …
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individual data from the European Community Household Panel, for France, Germany, and the UK. The empirical analysis is based on … France and Germany. The results indicate that in these two countries, which provide more generous benefits relative to the UK …
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individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …
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This paper suggests that in the US context, workers tend to invest in general human capital especially since they face little employment protection and low unemployment benefits, while the European model (generous benefits and higher duration of jobs) favors specific human capital investments....
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