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Immigration, unemployment and wages : new causality evidence from the United Kingdom

Tunali, Çiğdem Börke; Fidrmuc, Jan; Campos, Nauro - 2017 - This version: April 4, 2017

unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …

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Local labour market resilience : the role of digitalisation and working from home

Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco; Brüll, Eduard - 2024

We show that digital capital and working from home were essential for the resilience of local labour markets in the context of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. Employment responses differed widely across local labour markets, with differences in short-time work rates of up to 30 percentage points...

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Real wages and hours in the great recession : evidence from firms and their entry-level jobs

Schaefer, Daniel; Singleton, Carl - 2017

part-time workers. A one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate led to an average decline in real hourly wages … of new hires are not helpful for understanding the behaviour of unemployment over the business cycle. …

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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? : selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries

Geis, Wido (contributor); Uebelmesser, Silke (contributor); … - 2008

Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

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How do migrants choose their destination country? : an analysis of institutional determinants

Geis, Wido; Übelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008

institutional determinants, especially labor-market institutions, on migrants' choices. Based on a large data set constructed from … immigrant networks and negative effects of unemployment rates. In addition, we find that employment protection, union coverage … and unemployment benefits have positive effects on migration. Also good education and health systems tend to attract …

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Capabilities and choices : do they make Sen'se for understanding objective and subjective well-being?

Muffels, Ruud J. A.; Headey, Bruce - 2011

In Sen's Capability Approach (CA) well-being can be defined as the freedom of choice to achieve the things in life which one has reason to value most for his or her personal life. Capabilities are in Sen's vocabulary therefore the real freedoms people have or the opportunities available to them....

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How have employment transitions for older workers in Germany and the UK changed?

Wright, David - 2015

Extending working life is an objective for many nations. However, the UK government has recently reported only modest improvement "compared to many nations". A comparison of European, Labour Force Surveys show that Germany has reversed early retirement much faster than the UK since 2003. This...

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National minimum wage and employment of young workers in the UK

Fidrmuc, Jan; Tena, J. D. - 2013

We analyze the impact of the UK national minimum wage (NMW) on the employment of young workers. The previous literature found little evidence of an adverse impact of the NMW on the UK labor market. We focus on the age-related increases in the NMW at 18 and 22 years of age. Using regression...

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Work hours constraints and health

Bell, David N. F.; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2011

The issue of whether employees who work more hours than they want to suffer adverse health consequences is important not only at the individual level but also for governmental formation of work time policy. Our study investigates this question by analyzing the impact of the discrepancy between...

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The feminization of occupations and change in wages : a panel analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland

Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - 2015

In the last four decades, women have made major inroads into occupations previously dominated by men. This paper examines whether occupational feminization is accompanied by a decline in wages: Do workers suffer a wage penalty if they remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye...

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