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suggests that skilled immigration promotes economic equality in advanced economies under standard conditions. The context is …
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but changed the composition of the immigrants, (iii) any negative effects in the labour market on wages or employment are …
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This paper outlines the importance of labor mobility for the improvement in allocating and distributing economic resources. We are faced with an increasing lack of skilled workers and a growing tendency of unemployment amongst the low-skilled. A central political objective for the future will...
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like Germany occupations also reflect a general socio-economic standing. This paper looks at the patterns of employment in …
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Economically active people are either in gainful employment, are unemployed or self-employed. We are interested in the … dynamics of the transitions between these states across the business cycle. It is generally perceived that employment or self-employment … that lead to fluctuations between employment and self-employment, directly or through the unemployment state. Migrants are …
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paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment … for their integration in the labor market. Since the focus is on the understanding of the self-employment decision, a two …-stage structural probit model is employed that determines the willingness to work full-time (against part-time employment and not …
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This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...
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Das ökonomische Potenzial ethnischer und kultureller Vielfalt wird häufig verkannt. Die Ergebnisse neuerer Studien, die in diesem Beitrag zusammengefasst werden, zeigen jedoch, dass sich weiche Faktoren wie etwa Einstellungen, Wahrnehmungen und Identitäten, hier insbesondere ethnische...
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an immobile labour force and the eurosklerosis phenomenon. In such a situation, an economically motivated immigration …
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unemployment as well as from shorter periods of employment. This paper jointly examines male native-migrant differences in the … duration of unemployment and subsequent employment using German panel data and bivariate discrete time hazard rate models …
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