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the returns to self-employment among low-skilled immigrants. We compare annual earnings and earnings growth of immigrant … financially rewarding option for most low-skilled immigrants. An exception is immigrant men, who are found to have higher earnings … growth than immigrants in wage/salary employment and are predicted to reach earnings parity after approximately 10 years in …
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This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...
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-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous … the population and average earnings ratios are used as instruments to control for self-selection into self-employment and … consequently identify the inverse Mills correction term in the earnings models. Self-employed immigrants do substantially better in …
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This paper analyzes differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased in Sweden in the 1990?s. We find that immigrants use welfare to a greater extent...
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. Predicted earnings of self-employed immigrants are higher throughout most of their work life relative to wage/salary immigrants … predicted earnings across national origin group of self-employed immigrants. The low variation in predicted earnings across …
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migration and contribute to a better economic performance of the respective countries. …
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Considerable research attention has been devoted to the question of whether and to what extent changes in welfare policy legislated in the 1990s might have deterred immigrant participation in welfare programs, although only post-1996 immigrants were explicitly targeted by most of the changes....
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According to the German disability law, or Schwerbehindertengesetz, either six percent of all jobs in an establishment must be occupied by disabled empoyees or the firm has to pay a penalty of DM 200 per month for every job under consideration. This note reports results from the first...
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performance. Enterprises that relocated activities abroad in the period 2001-03 for the first time are compared to firms that did … performance, six different variants of a matching approach of firms that did and did not start to relocate abroad in 2001-03 were … performed based on a propensity score estimated using firm characteristics in 2000 and the change in the performance variable …
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Using a large administrative dataset for Germany, this paper compares employment developments in exiting and surviving establishments. For both West and East Germany we find a clear shadow of death effect reflecting lingering illness: establishments shrink dramatically already several years...
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