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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States—looking both over time with immigrants’ residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
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This paper estimates the causal effect of the wage on the recruitment rate at the establishment level. During the 1990s, the wage setting for certified teachers in Norway was completely centralized, with a wage premium of about 10 percent at schools with severe recruitment problems in the past...
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Survey measures of the reservation wage reflect both the consumption-leisure trade-off and job search concerns (the arrival rate of job offers and the wage distribution). We examine what a survey measure of the reservation wage reveals about labor supply when search concerns are absent. To this...
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Socio-Economic Panel we show that women respond to their partners’ unemployment with an increase in labor market …-effects separately, revealing differences in the relationships between women’s labor market statuses and their partners’ unemployment in … similar to that of his unemployment. …
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unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …The vast literature on the effects of immigration on wages and employment is plagued by likely endogeneity and …
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(EMU) led to lower wage growth and lower unemployment in participating countries. Following Grüner's model, monetary … national business cycles which, in turn, leads to higher unemployment risk. In order to counter-balance this effect, trade … unions lower their claims for wage mark-ups resulting in lower wage growth and lower unemployment. This paper uses …
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risk of unemployment two years after the treatment. However, the effects are heterogeneous as to gender, age, education …
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market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …
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Experimental evidence on a range of interventions in developing countries is accumulating rapidly. Is it possible to extrapolate from an experimental evidence base to other locations of policy interest (from “reference” to “target” sites)? And which factors determine the accuracy of such...
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In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...
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