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Mismatch unemployment in Austria : the role of regional labour markets for skills

Böheim, René; Christl, Michael - 2021

the regional and skill dimension of mismatch unemployment, we find a substantial increase of mismatch unemployment for …

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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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Friends' networks and job finding rates

Cappellari, Lorenzo; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2010

We investigate the effect of social interactions on labor market outcomes using a direct measure of social contacts based on information about individuals' three best friends and their characteristics. We examine the effect of the number of employed friends on the transition from non-employment...

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