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skills during the experience of unemployment. Within a search and matching model, we show that all natives and immigrants are … sector. Discrimination may induce immigrants to train more or less than natives, depending on the sector where it is present …We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing …
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skills during an unemployment experience. Within a search and matching framework, we show that both natives and immigrants …We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing … are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spill-overs, inducing employment to increase in …
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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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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 provides evidence that finishing school when labour markets are weak leads to poor subsequent labour market prospects, particularly those leaving school at younger ages. Using administrative register data from Denmark, we find that these scarring effects are larger and more persistent...
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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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the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a …
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