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Evaluating immigration policy : potentials and limitations

Fertig, Michael - 2002

Based on the ideas developed in the literature on the evaluation of active labor market policy, this paper provides a framework for the evaluation of key elements of immigration policy. To this end, the fundamental ingredients of evaluating policy interventions are explained and the specific...

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The happiness gains from sorting and matching in the labor market

Lüchinger, Simon (contributor); Stutzer, Alois (contributor) - 2006

Sorting of people on the labor market not only assures the most productive use of valuable skills but also generates individual utility gains if people experience an optimal match between job characteristics and their preferences. Based on individual data on reported satisfaction with life it is...

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Life satisfaction, pro-activity, and employment

Akay, Alpaslan; Karabulut, Gökhan; Yilmaz, Levent - 2021

Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper investigates how pro-active time-use (e.g., in sports/arts/socializing) relates to subjective well-being of the unemployed and their probability of finding a new job. Allowing for a variety of socio-demographic and...

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Does corruption promote emigration? : an empirical examination

Cooray, Arusha; Schneider, Friedrich - 2014

This paper empirically investigates the relationship between corruption and the emigration of those with high, medium and low levels of educational attainment. The empirical results indicate that as corruption increases the emigration rate of those with high levels of educational attainment also...

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Monopsony power and poverty : the consequences of Walmart Supercenter openings

Lehner, Lukas; Parolin, Zachary; Pignatti, Clemente; … - 2024

Prior research suggests that Walmart Supercenters exert substantial power over the low-wage labor market, though the consequences of Supercenter openings on household incomes and public finances are less clear. This study uses restricted-access Panel Study of Income Dynamics data from 1970 to...

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Social interactions in the labor market

Grodner, Andrew; Kniesner, Thomas J.; Bishop, John A. - 2011

We examine theoretically and empirically social interactions in labor markets and how policy prescriptions can change dramatically when there are social interactions present. Spillover effects increase labor supply and conformity effects make labor supply perfectly inelastic at a reference group...

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Labor market incorporation of immigrants in Japan and the United States : a comparative analysis

Cornelius, Wayne A.; Tsuda, Takeyuki - 2002

The most commonly used model of labor market incorporation among immigrants in the United States analyzes their earnings largely as a function of human capital variables such as education, language competence, age, length of residence and employment experience in the receiving country. However,...

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Causes of changing earnings inequality

Snower, Dennis J. - 1999

This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....

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Generating legitimacy for labor market and welfare state reforms : the role of policy advice in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden

Eichhorst, Werner (contributor); Wintermann, Ole (contributor) - 2005

structured and to what it extent it could influence actual policy-making in Germany, the Netherlands, and Sweden over the last …

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Capital deepening and wage differentials : Germany vs. US

Koeniger, Winfried (contributor); … - 2006

workers in Germany, firms have incentives to invest relatively more into capital equipment complementary to unskilled workers … evidence consistent with this view based on an industry panel for West Germany and the US between the 1970s and 1990s. We show … that capital equipment per worker is less positively associated with the wage differential in West Germany than in the US …

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