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The Labor Market Integration of Refugee Migrants in High-Income Countries
Brell, Courtney - 2020
We provide an overview of the integration of refugees into the labor markets of a number of high-income countries. Discussing the ways in which refugees and economic migrants are differently selected and so might be expected to perform differently in a host country's labor market, we examine...
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How Does For-Profit College Attendance Affect Student Loans, Defaults and Labor Market Outcomes?
Armona, Luis - 2019
For-profit providers are becoming an increasingly important fixture of US higher education markets. Students who attend for-profit institutions take on more educational debt, have worse labor market outcomes, and are more likely to default than students attending similarly-selective public...
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Can Job Search Assistance Improve the Labour Market Integration for Refugees? Evidence from a Field Experiment
Battisti, Michele - 2019
We conducted a field experiment to evaluate the impact of job-search assistance on the employment of recently arrived refugees in Germany. The treatment group received job-matching support: an NGO identified suitable vacancies and sent the refugees' CVs to employers. Results of follow-up phone...
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The Value of Formal Host-Country Education for the Labour Market Position of Refugees : Evidence from Austria
Ludolph, Lars - 2021
Refugees hosted across the developed world often work in low-quality jobs, regardless of education previously attained in their country of origin. In this paper, I analyse the long-term value of formal host-country education for refugees using the example of forcefully displaced Bosnians who...
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Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach
Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2021
In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one region the target group is counselled shortly...
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Coworker Networks and the Labor Market Outcomes of Displaced Workers : Evidence from Portugal
Garcia-Louzao, Jose; Silva, Marta - 2023
The use of social contacts in the labor market is widespread. This paper investigates the impact of personal connections on hiring probabilities and re-employment outcomes of displaced workers in Portugal. We rely on rich matched employer-employee data to define personal connections that arise...
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Pension reform, retirement and life-cycle unemployment
Jaag, Christian; Keuschnigg, Christian; Keuschnigg, Mirela - 2007
The labor market effects of pension reform stem from retirement behavior and from job search and hours worked of prime …
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Is Prescott right?: welfare state policies and the incentives to work, learn and retire
Jacobs, Bas - 2008
endogenous retirement. Labor taxation distorts not only labor supply, but also education and retirement decisions. Actuarially … unfair pensions further exacerbate labor tax distortions on retirement. Education subsidies can nevertheless cushion the … adverse impact of taxation on skill formation. Feedbacks between education, labor supply, and retirement are important. The …
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Annuity market imperfection, retirement and economic growth
Heijdra, Ben J.; Mierau, Jochen O. - 2009
We study the effects of an annuity market imperfection on individual agents' labour supply and retirement decisions and …
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The standard deviation of life-length, retirement incentives, and optimal pension design
Aronsson, Thomas; Blomquist, Sören - 2010
In this paper, we consider how the retirement age as well as a tax financed pension system ought to respond to a change … perfect control over the individuals' labor supply and retirement-decisions, the results show that a decrease in the standard … deviation of life-length leads to an increase in the optimal retirement age and vice versa, if the preferences for 'the number …
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