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The effect of immigration on native earnings
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2000
national survey of the SEO and the Population statistics ofthe CBS. Firstly, the directeffect of immigrants on local labour … wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less … skillednatives are a little adverselyaffected by immigrants. …
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Economic impacts of cultural diversity in the Netherlands : productivity, utility, and sorting
Bakens, Jessie; Mulder, Peter; Nijkamp, Peter - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009722692
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Ethnic drift and white flight : a gravity model of neighborhood formation
Bakens, Jessie; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Mulder, Peter - 2016
Ethnicity has become an increasingly important factor in neighborhood formation in many developed economies. We specify a gravity model for neighborhoods to assess the role of ethnicity in intra-urban residential relocations. Migration patterns of different ethnic groups are hypothesized to...
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Living apart together : the economic value of ethnic diversity in cities
Bakens, Jessie; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Groot, Henri … - 2018
In consumer cities, the presence and location of immigrants impacts house prices through two channels, which both can … the presence of immigrants on house prices. Diversity of immigrant-induced amenities has an additional positive effect on …
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Separations at the firm level
Gautier, Pieter; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - 1999
This paper analyzes the determinants of lay-offs, job-to-job movements and totalseparations with a unique data set that combines information on individual firmsand their workers. We are in particular interested in whether the lay-offpolicy of firms can explain the relatively high level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300551
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Catching hipo's : screening, wages and unemployment
Janssen, Maarten C. W. - 2000
In this paper, I study the wage a firm sets to attract high abilityworkers (hipo's) in situationsof unemployment. I show that the higher unemployment, the larger afirm's incentives to sorthigh and low ability workers. Moreover, workers will signal their(high) ability in situationsof (high)...
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Investor sentiment and employment
Montone, Maurizio; Zwinkels, Remco C. J. - 2015
We find that investor sentiment should affect a firm's employment policy in a world with moral hazard and noise traders. Consistent with the model's predictions, we show that higher sentiment among US investors leads to: (1) higher employment growth worldwide; (2) lower labor productivity, as the...
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The persistence and nature of the labor reallocation shock during the COVID-19 crisis
Steijn, Mathieu P. A. - 2024
The COVID-19 crisis may have widely and permanently altered the labor market through the demand for skills. Crises tend to accelerate technological change. Previous recent crises were characterized by an acceleration of automation, which generally led to a decrease in middle-income jobs with...
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A microeconomic model for employers' search in the labour market : the number of recruitment channels
Russo, Giovanni (contributor) - 1994
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A model of competition between unemployed and employed job searchers : a replication of Burgess for The Netherlands 1965 - 1991
Broersma, Lourens - 1994
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