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immigrants are characterized by above average age and by professional occupations. On the other hand, labour markets for young … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …
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receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …
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In this article, I study the effect of worker heterogeneities on wages and unemployment within the context of a …
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Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of … life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper … shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any amenity on wages and unemployment rates are of opposite sign …
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Central banks need to be concerned about wages since they are a major driver of inflation. Rising wages are needed to signal directions for market adjustments to ensure growth. Wage growth is driven by relative scarcity, labor productivity and expectations about inflation and future growth....
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increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …
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This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wages and higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …
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' labor market behavior, we show that immigrants who enter unemployment when a terrorist event hits their home country are 1 ….8 percentage points more likely to be employed within three months than immigrants who enter unemployment in quiet times. Among … more likely to work part-time. These results suggest that immigrants who enter unemployment in a month with high levels of …
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natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …
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survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …
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