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. A worker's bargaining position reflects their own productivity, and also the employment status and conditions of their …
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, fertility and children's living circumstances during 1990-2014. On average, trade shocks differentially reduce employment and …
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immediate shift of around 40 percent of one within standard deviation to more negative attitudes toward immigration and resulted … terrorism shock. -- immigration ; attitudes ; education ; September 11 ; terrorism …
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to a high age at immigration than that of males. Also, language skills do not appear to be central for the causal …
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Immigrants in many countries have lower employment rates and lower earnings than natives. We study whether a more … liberal access to citizenship improves the economic integration of immigrants. Our analysis relies on two major immigration …
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on health. We merge information on individual characteristics from the … component of the data to analyse how immigration affects the health of both immigrants and natives over time. Upon their arrival … population. Our results suggest that immigration reduces the likelihood that residents report negative health outcomes. We show …
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with other variables such as income, self-employment, or East German origin. …
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This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past three decades, while explicitly taking into account labor supply choices. Using rich micro data, the observed distribution of couples' earnings is compared to a counterfactual...
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This study investigates the determinants of women's labor supply in the household context. The main focus is on the effect of a change in male partner's wages on women's work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married and cohabiting women make different economic decisions...
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This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
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