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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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sorted across firms and worker-firm matches upon re-employment. We find that the Hartz reforms substantially reduced the … 80 percent of the increased wage loss was because displaced workers found re-employment in lower-wage firms after the … reforms. A disproportionate share of these low-wage firms offer temporary employment services to other firms, and we document …
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, preventing employment at low wages. This creates substantial unemployment of the low-skilled. This paper discusses the …
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meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act …
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We estimate the effect of nonemployment experienced by Italian youth after leaving secondary school on subsequent labor market outcomes. We focus on the impact on earnings and labor market participation both in the short- and in the long-term, up to 25 years since school completion. By...
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others cycle repeatedly in and out of employment. This paper explores the economic consequences of such heterogeneity. Using …
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We set up a search and matching model with a private and a public sector to understand the effects of employment and … small positive impact on educational composition and larger negative impact on the private employment of skilled workers, if … and on skilled private employment. We highlight the usefulness of the model for policymakers by calculating the value of …
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what European policy makers can learn from this experience. Impact of Immigration on natives' employment and earnings, as …
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The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession …
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The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...
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