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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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-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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France and Germany are two polar cases in the European debate about rising youth unemployment. Similar to what can be … observed in Southern European countries, a "lost generation" may arise in France. In stark contrast, youth unemployment has … been on continuous decline in Germany for many years, hardly affected by the Great Recession. This paper analyzes the …
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labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …
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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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