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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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- the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality - Austria, Finland, France …, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … - Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …
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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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discuss evidence on these questions for Austria, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Portugal, Spain and the United … workforce composition. We then consider the economic theory of the impact of immigration on income distribution, emphasizing …
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We investigate the employment consequences of deindustrialization for 1,993 cities in France, Germany, Great Britain …
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Within an efficiency wage framework, we study the effects of two revenue-neutral tax reforms that change the progressivity of the labour tax system. A revenue-neutral increase in both the wage tax and tax exemption and a revenue-neutral change in the composition of labour taxation towards the...
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-pecuniary job quality and workplace characteristics in Britain and France – countries with very different employment regimes. The … results show that job quality is better in Britain than it is in France, despite its minimalist regulatory regime. The … associated with non-pecuniary job quality in both countries but in France the association is confined to only the largest firms …
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: the elasticity of substitution between experience and education, which is found to be less than half. In France, the …
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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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