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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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Previous research has found identity to be relevant for international migration, but has neglected internal mobility as … labor market outcomes of migrants in China, the country with the largest record of internal mobility. Using instrumental …
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Previous research on internal mobility has neglected the role of local identity contrary to studies analyzing … mobility in the world, closes the gap. Instrumental variable estimation and careful robustness checks suggest that identifying …
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Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to signal power, and to control migration. The costs of fortifications are large while the benefits are questionable. The recent trend of building walls and fences signals a paradox: In spite of the...
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Throughout history, border walls and fences have been built for defense, to claim land, to signal power, and to control migration. The costs of fortifications are large while the benefits are questionable. The recent trend of building walls and fences signals a paradox: In spite of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161476
first ever meta-analysis of field experiments on occupational access discrimination based on sexual orientation, (ii …) utilizing the moderating role of marital status and family support, (iii) studying occupational access discrimination based on …
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. Using the complete-count Census of 1930, we digitize information on the exact residence of newly arrived immigrants in New … has on the probability of immigrants to acquire citizenship a decade later. Our results indicate that the concentration of … main channel: information dissemination. Indeed, immigrants who live among naturalized co-ethnics are more likely to …
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This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and even return home at some time with better human...
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This paper examines the wage earnings of fully-employed previous refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative … employer-employee data from 1990 onwards, about 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted … overperformance is due to female refugee immigrants, who have-relative to their endowment-higher wages than comparable native …
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We develop a theoretical model in which whites mainly use private vehicles to commute whereas non-whites use public transportation. We show that, for whites and non-whites, higher (time) distance-to-jobs leads to lower search effort. Because of different transport modes, we also show that, at...
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