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Work disability, work, and justification bias in Europe and the U.S.
Kapteyn, Arie; Smith, James P.; Soest, Arthur van - 2009
To analyze the effect of health on work, many studies use a simple self-assessed health measure based upon a question such as "do you have an impairment or health problem limiting the kind or amount of work you can do?" A possible drawback of such a measure is the possibility that different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003895090
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Immigration to the land of redistribution
Boeri, Tito - 2009
unexploited database (EU-Silc), we find no evidence that legal migrants, notably skilled migrants, are net recipients of transfers … dilemma facing Europe involves i. co-ordinating safety nets across the EU, ii. adopting explicitly selective migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872704
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Does employment protection help immigrants? : evidence from European labor markets
Sa, Filipa (contributor) - 2008
immigrant. This paper tests that hypothesis drawing on evidence for the EU and on two natural experiments for Spain and Italy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003666479
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Labor market outcomes of immigrants and non-citizens in the EU : an East-West comparison
Kahanec, Martin (contributor); Zaiceva, Anzelika (contributor) - 2008
The starkly different histories and institutions in the eastern and western member states of the European Union (EU … importance in the western EU member states, both immigrant status and citizenship matter in the eastern EU member states, their … the relationships between being non-citizen and labor market outcomes that we find in the eastern EU member states …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003684464
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Migrant ethnic identity : concept and policy implications
Zimmermann, Klaus F. (contributor) - 2007
With globalization, the size of migration and the value of ethnicity is rising. Also Cyprus undergoes a strong process of change while experiencing large inflows of migration. The paper investigates the challenges and the potentials of migration from a European Union perspective. It advocates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003561629