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-2014 period. We also study whether displaced movers obtain earnings and employment gains compared to displaced stayers. The … based on short-term economic incentives. Migration has an immediate negative relationship with earnings, but the link …
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This paper investigates how immigrants' job search outcomes are affected by the labor market outcomes of workers from the same country of origin they are connected to. Connections are identified based on having worked for the same firm in the past. Using matched employer-employee micro data from...
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Economies with low unemployment often have high disability rates. In Norway, the permanent disability insurance rolls …
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We show that downsizing has substantial externalities on the health of workers who remain in the firm. To this end, we … control group. Based on high-quality administrative data, we find evidence that downsizing has persistent effects on mental … health externalities due to downsizing imply non-negligible cost for firms, and that wage cuts may have similar effects. …
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Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools, health care, and attractive employment opportunities are available only to those who have local registration (Hukou). Coincident with the deepening of economic reforms, Hukou has...
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This paper seeks to unpick the complex effects of migration, country of birth, and place of residence in Scotland on individual success in the labour market. We pay specific attention to the labour force experience of English-born residents in Scotland, whom the cross sectional literature...
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The paper compares the pattern of wage assimilation of foreigners with both native immigrants and local natives in Italy, a country with large internal and international migration. This comparison, not yet exploited, yields understanding of the role played by language and knowledge of social...
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In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate how well China's urban areas absorb migrant workers under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial and regional rural labor absorption efficiency in...
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Family Survey to estimate a logit model for overeducation probability taking into account the problem of selection bias and …
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To date, analysis of the spatial dimension of New Zealand labour markets has been limited to administrative, rather than appropriately-defined functional, geographic units. This paper presents a preliminary classification of New Zealand into local labour market areas using area unit...
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