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the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
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Using a large new dataset, we analyze the labor market performance of Portuguese workers in Germany. While previous … work compares wages and characteristics of migrants only to those of the natives, we match the data also with an equivalent …
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The paper investigates the relative importance of job mobility for wages in comparison with the human capital framework …
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The macro evidence of increased adjustment pressure since the early seventies suggests that job mobility should have increased. Hence, retrospective and spell data from the German Socio-Economic Panel are combined in order to test the hypothesis that job stability for German workers declined...
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Migration is an unavoidable aspect of globalization. While full flexibility is politically unfeasible, the paper argues for regulated openness. Migration in the age of globalization should be judged according to the labor market needs of the receiving countries. This would also serve best the...
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practical and conceptional problems, like resource constraints in control, shifts from legal to illegal employment, or …
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explaining mortality crises and their relevance for the case of East Germany. Based on individual-level panel data the …
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determinants of workplace accidents using a firm data set for Germany. Given the tight system of public workplace safety regulation …, the employment of guestworkers has a strong positive effect on the job safety of natives. The estimates imply that a 1 … percent increase in the employment of guestworkers is associated with a 0.4 percent decrease of severe accidents of natives. …
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suggest that immigration exhibits negative effects on native employment and wages, and has no effects on total employment …. Imports affect employment negatively and exports have a positive effect on wages. The German results indicate that immigration … and trade is not harming employment and wages. Natives seem to be complements to migrants, at least to those from East …
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