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Measuring immigration's effects on labor demand: a reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift

Bodvarsson, Örn B. (contributor); … - 2007

the effects of an immigration shock on labor demand by testing a general equilibrium model in which imperfectly … substitutable native and immigrant workers spend their wages on a locally produced good. The shock induces three responses: (i) a … can fall, stay the same or rise, depending upon the strength of the shock and various product and factor market …

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The rise and fall of Swiss unemployment : relative demand shocks, wage rigidities, and temporary immigrants

Puhani, Patrick A. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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On econometric analysis of structural systems with permanent and transitory shocks and exogenous variables

Pagan, Adrian R. (contributor); … - 2007

structural models in the general case where the model might contain more than one permanent structural shock. It provides a …

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Trade and informality in the presence of labor market frictions and regulations

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Meghir, Costas - 2021

We build an equilibrium model of a small open economy with labor market frictions and imperfectly enforced regulations. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual simulations to understand how trade affects...

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Noncognitive skills, occupational attainment, and relative wages

Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Tan, Michelle - 2009

This paper examines whether men's and women's noncognitive skills influence their occupational attainment and, if so, whether this contributes to the disparity in their relative wages. We find that noncognitive skills have a substantial effect on the probability of employment in many, though not...

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Decomposing the ins and outs of cyclical unemployment

Bachmann, Ronald; Sinning, Mathias - 2012

This paper analyzes the contribution of the socioeconomic and demographic composition of the pool of employed and unemployed individuals to the dynamics of the labor market in different phases of the business cycle. Using individual level data from the Current Population Survey (CPS), we...

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Decomposing differences in labour force status between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians

Kalb, Guyonne; Le, Trinh; Hunter, Boyd H.; Leung, Felix - 2012

Despite several policy efforts to promote economic participation by Indigenous Australians, they continue to have low participation rates compared to non-Indigenous Australians. This study decomposes the gap in labour market attachment between Indigenous and non- Indigenous Australians in...

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Distributional changes in the gender wage gap

New, Sonja C. de; Sinning, Mathias - 2010

This paper analyzes changes in wage differentials between white men and white women over the period 1993-2006 across the entire wage distribution using Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) data. We decompose distributional changes in the gender wage gap to assess the contribution of observed...

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The effects of health and health shocks on hours worked

Cai, Lixin (contributor); Mavromaras, Kostas G. (contributor) - 2008

We investigate the impact of health on working hours in recognition of the fact that leaving the labour market due to persistently low levels of health stock or due to new health shocks, is only one of the possibilities open to employees. We use the first six waves of the HILDA survey to...

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The effect of shocks to labour market flows on unemployment and participation rates

Dixon, Robert J.; Lim, Guay C.; Ours, Jan C. van - 2014

that a shock to the net flow from unemployment to employment drive the unemployment rate and the participation rate in … opposite directions while a shock to the net flow from not in the labour force to unemployment drives the rates in the same …

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