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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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for these groups suggest that family-related preferences, employer discrimination, and institutional settings matter for … unemployment duration and the quality of reemployment. …
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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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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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This paper examines whether a greater concentration of foreigners increases the likelihood of unemployment in local …
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suggests that restrictions on residential mobility, neighborhood effects, and the place-based housing subsidy itself contribute … to the higher rates of unemployment often observed among public housing tenants. However, recent evidence from Europe and … and large positive impact on the probability of being unemployed. Yet, a high rate of unemployment among public housing …
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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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increases job-finding in the private sector by 10 percentage points within one year of unemployment. Six years later, high …
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