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A macroeconomic experiment in mass immigration

Hercowitz, Zvi; Yashiv, Eran - 2002

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Characteristics of unemployment dynamics : the chain reaction approach

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - 2000

The aim of this paper is to analyze and estimate salient characteristics of unemployment dynamics. Movements in unemployment are viewed as "chain reactions" of responses to labor market shocks, working their way through systems of interacting lagged adjustment processes. In the context of...

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Skill upgrading and rigid relative wages : the case of Danish manufacturing

Skaksen, Jan Rose - 2002

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Labor market flows and equilibrium search unemployment

Garibaldi, Pietro; Wasmer, Etienne - 2001

This paper explicitly differentiates between unemployment and inactivity, by defining inactivity as a state in which individuals do not search for jobs when non-employed. Facing changes in the value of inactivity, individuals transit through three labor market states. In steady-state, we hence...

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The tail of two countries : minimum wages and employment in France and the United States

Abowd, John M.; Kramarz, Francis; Margolis, David N.; … - 2000

We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of changes in the real minimum wage rate on an individual's employment status. We focus on workers employed at wages close enough to the minimum in a reference year as to be illegal...

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An explanation of international differences in education and workplace training

Brunello, Giorgio; Medio, Alfredo - 2000

We develop a simple search equilibrium model of workplace training and education based on two features. First, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with vacant skilled job slots can choose between recruitment...

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Wage rigidities in Western Germany? : microeconometric evidence from the 1990s

Puhani, Patrick A. - 2001

This paper investigates whether and in what sense the west German wage structure has been 'rigid' in the 1990s. To test the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a methodology which makes less restrictive identifying...

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Fiskalische Effekte der Zuwanderung nach Deutschland : eine Generationenbilanz

Bonin, Holger - 2001

The paper employs generational accounting to analyze the intertemporal fiscal impact of immigration to Germany … externality on the incumbent population due to immigration is found positive and large. Further, immigration probably reduces … immigration policy could raise the average migrant surplus to the intertemporal government budget, it cannot restore fiscal …

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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany

Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002

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Protective or counter-productive? : labor market institutions and the effect of immigration on EU natives

Angrist, Joshua D.; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2002

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