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This Paper focuses on the entrepreneurial endeavors of immigrants and natives in Germany. We pay closer attention to … immigrants, Turks are twice as likely to choose self-employment as any other immigrant group. The age-earnings profiles of self … the self-employed Greeks, Italians, Spaniards, ex-Yugoslavs, Polish or other East Europeans, including those immigrants …
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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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There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This …
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The Great Recession has indicated that firms' leverage and access to finance are important for hiring and firing decisions. It is now empirically established that bank lending is correlated to employment losses when credit conditions deteriorate. We provide further evidence of this drawing on a...
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A common explanation of low unemployment rates in the Czech Republic (CR) is the stance of active labour market … unemployment into employment. …
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coexistence of strict employment security regulations, significant job-to-job shifts and high long-term unemployment rates in …
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across sectors and occupations. Such low mobility can be explained by low returns to job changes as well as by market … generosity of unemployment benefits will not significantly boost outflows from the unemployment state. These findings support … explanations for low mobility in transitional economies, which are based on informational failures, and high costs of moving from …
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Employment protection legislations (EPL) are not enforced uniformly across the board. There are a number of exemptions to the coverage of these provisions: firms below a given threshold scale and workers with temporary contracts are not subject to the most restrictive provisions. This...
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While the literature has established that there is substantial and highly selective return migration, the growing importance of repeat migration has been largely ignored. Using Markov chain analysis, this Paper provides a modelling framework for repeated moves of migrants between the host and...
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