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Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is … points six or more years after the start of the first job, an effect not observed for non-conational immigrants, with no …
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immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … immigration enforcement mutes job creation and raises the unemployment rate of all workers, having an even larger detrimental …
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experimental evidence strongly suggests that discrimination cannot be discounted. Psychological attributes or noncognitive skills …
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The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...
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job-to-job mobility, independent of the job-offer distribution and other labor-market parameters. Applying our methodology … transitions or compensating differentials - can reconcile our results with the job-to-job mobility seen in the data. Regardless of …
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' labor market behavior, we show that immigrants who enter unemployment when a terrorist event hits their home country are 1 ….8 percentage points more likely to be employed within three months than immigrants who enter unemployment in quiet times. Among … more likely to work part-time. These results suggest that immigrants who enter unemployment in a month with high levels of …
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Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …
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We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany. Losses in annual earnings after displacement are large, persistent, and highly cyclical, nearly doubling in size during downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses...
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We relate origin-destination real price differences to immigrants' reservation wages and their career trajectories …, exploiting administrative data from Germany and the 2004 enlargement of the European Union. We find that immigrants who enter … firms. Similar patterns hold in the US data. Our analysis offers one explanation for the widespread phenomenon of immigrants …
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low-type workers have become increasingly sorted into low-type firms over time, especially out of unemployment. This …
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