Population Survey extracts in 1980, specific to Miami but unrelated to the Boatlift. We also show that conflicting findings on … the labor-market effects of other important refugee waves can be produced by spurious correlation between the instrument …

The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … – which is rarely directly measured – even if native and foreign labor are perfect substitutes in production. This paper uses … two natural quasi-experiments to directly compare foreign to native labor supply in manual farm work. The first quasi …

progress. -- Out of Africa hypothesis ; human genetic diversity ; comparative development ; population density ; Neolithic …

This paper investigates the effectiveness of benefit sanctions in reducing unemployment duration. Data from the Swiss … labor market allow making a distinction between the effect of a warning that a person is not complying with eligibility … positive effect on the exit rate out of unemployment. Moreover, the stricter the sanction policy the shorter is the duration of …

The potential duration of benefits is generally viewed as an important determinant of unemployment duration. This paper … evaluates a unique policy change that prolonged entitlement to regular unemployment benefits from 30 weeks to a maximum of 209 … program was an endogenous policy response to a crisis affecting individuals with severe labor market problems. The main …

This paper studies how changes in the two key parameters of unemployment insurance the benefit replacement rate (RR …) and the potential duration of benefits (PBD) affect the duration of unemployment. In 1989, the Austrian government made … unemployment insurance more generous by changing, simultaneously, the maximum duration of regular unemployment benefits and the …

Right-wing extremism is a serious problem in many societies. A prominent hypothesis states that unemployment plays a … fact a significant positive relation between unemployment and right-wing criminal activities. We show further that the big … difference in right-wing crime between East and West German states can mostly be attributed to differences in unemployment. This …

The job finding rate declines with the duration of unemployment. While this is a well established fact, the reasons are …" duration dependence, while the remaining 45 percent is due to dynamic selection of the unemployment pool. We also discuss …