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How immigration grease is affected by economic, institutional and policy contexts : evidence from EU labor markets
Guzi, Martin; Kahanec, Martin; Kureková, Lucia Mýtna - 2015
Theoretical arguments and previous country-level evidence indicate that immigrants are more fluid than natives in responding to changing labor shortages across countries, skill-groups or industries. The diversity across EU member states enables us to test this hypothesis across various...
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Kombilohn oder Workfare? : zur Wirksamkeit zweier arbeitsmarktpolitischer Strategien
Bonin, Holger; Kempe, Wolfram; Schneider, Hilmar - 2002
Das heutige System der sozialen Mindestsicherung verhindert in Deutschland die Ausbildung eines Niedriglohnsektors …
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On the potential interaction between labour market institutions and immigration policies
Cigagna, Claudia; Sulis, Giovanni - 2015
Using data on migration flows for a sample of 15 OECD countries over the period 1980-2006, we analyse the effect of unemployment and labour institutions such as employment protection legislation, coverage of unemployment benefits, minimum wages, union power and tax wedge on migration flows. We...
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International immigration and labor regulation
Levai, Adam; Turati, Riccardo - 2024
The existing literature investigating the labor market impact of immigration assumes, implicitly or explicitly, that the law or labor regulation is exogenous to immigration. To test this assumption, we build a novel workers' protection measure based on 36 labor law variables that capture labor...
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Ethnic German migration since 1989 : results and perspectives
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1999
Among all European countries, Germany absorbs by far the largest number of immigrants. But to date, the German … economic situation in Germany deteriorated. Ethnic Germans are basically facing the same difficulties with social and economic … integration as foreigners. A majority of young Ethnic Germans have no cultural or language ties to Germany. Insufficient language …
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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification nased on nonparametric estimation
Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002
policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an application to western Germany it is demonstrated that nonparametric …
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Train drain? : access to foreign workers and firms' provision of training
Oswald-Egg, Maria Esther; Siegenthaler, Michael - 2023
Does better access to foreign workers reduce firms' willingness to provide general skills training to unskilled workers? We analyze how the opening of the Swiss labor market to workers from the European Union affected the number of apprenticeship positions that firms provide. We exploit that the...
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The labor market effects of restricting refugees' employment opportunities
Ahrens, Achim; Beerli, Andreas; Hangartner, Dominik; … - 2023
Refugees, and immigrants more generally, often do not have access to all jobs in the labor market. We argue that restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test this hypothesis, we leverage refugees' exogenous...
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Full employment : a distant dream for Europe
Gill, Indermit Singh; Koettl, Johannes; Packard, Truman - 2013
Today, Europe is a continent of low participation, low employment labor markets. Many observers would like to blame poor employment outcomes on the Euro or on austerity. But these are dangerous distractions from real problems that constitute imperatives for structural reform. There are...
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Illegal immigration and the shadow economy
Camacho, Carmen; Mariani, Fabio; Pensieroso, Luca - 2015
We build a general equilibrium model in which both illegal immigration and the size of the informal sector are endogenously determined. In this framework, we show that indirect policy measures such as tax reduction and detection of informal activities can be used as substitutes for border...
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