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We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects of immigration on labor market outcomes of native...
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market outcomes do not benefit significantly from naturalization. Naturalization reduces the risks of unemployment and …
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This paper quantifies how the local skill remoteness of a laid-off worker's last job affects subsequent wages, employment, and mobility rates. Local skill remoteness captures the degree of dissimilarity between the skill profiles of the worker's last job and all other jobs in a local labor...
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unexplored. We draw on both longitudinal and pseudo-panel data from Russia to explore how labor market hardships relate to … insecurity, experiences with wage arrears, and spells of unemployment all increase the attractiveness of work in the public …
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unemployment and wages in aggregate analysis. We do find, however, evidence of distributional effects when accounting for human …
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-2019 period, we use Bayesian Model Averaging and quantile regression to assess notably the relevance of unemployment and earnings …. Moreover, one percentage point increase in the difference in the unemployment rate is associated with an increase in net …
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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' 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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We study the labour market impact of a major shock of return migration, following the end of the Portuguese Colonial War in 1974. The retornados influx is unique because of its size (half a million people in a country of nine million), and similarity with the native population (almost 80% of the...
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in their unemployment rate and not a decline in labour force participation rate. Policymakers should take account of …
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