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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard conditions. The context is …

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Ethnic Networks and International Trade

Epstein, Gil S; Gang, Ira - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

There is a well-established high quality literature on the role of networks, particularly ethnic networks, in international trade. Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers (information costs, risk and uncertainty) to trade by building trust and substituting for the difficulty of...

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Legal Status at Entry, Economic Performance and Self-Employment Proclivity: A Bi-National Study of Immigrants

Constant, Amelie; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid …

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The Russian-Ukrainian Earnings Divide

Constant, Amelie; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Monitoring Survey (ULMS) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of earnings, we find a persistent and rising labour market divide …

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Sovereign Debt Markets in Turbulent Times: Creditor Discrimination and Crowding-Out Effects

Broner, Fernando A; Erce, Aitor; Martin, Alberto; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

key ingredients: creditor discrimination and crowding-out effects. Creditor discrimination arises because, in turbulent …

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Gender Discrimination in the British Labour Market: A Reassessment

Ermisch, John F; Wright, Robert E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

discrimination. Using data collected in the 1980 Women and Employment Survey, we find that women's wages would be between 20 and 25 … per cent higher in the absence of discrimination. This is somewhat higher than previous estimates have indicated. …

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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's

D Amuri, Francesco; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Peri, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and … as `flexible' as the UK labour market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …

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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...

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Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership

Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

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Trust, Inequality, and Ethnic Heterogeneity

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

Using a large Australian social survey, combined with precise data on neighbourhood characteristics, I explore the …

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