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literature? and the ?discrimination literature?. We estimate separate wage equations for natives and a number of immigrant groups … of qualifications and incomplete assimilation, and that a large fraction of that gap would disappear if only immigrants …
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We investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment for immigrants to Denmark using the timing …-of-events approach. We provide evidence of large positive in-treatment effects, particularly for non-western immigrants and immigrants … arriving during childhood. Post-treatment effects are fairly high for male non-western immigrants and immigrants from Eastern …
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We investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment for immigrants to Denmark using the timing …-of-events approach. We provide evidence of large positive in-treatment effects, particularly for non-western immigrants and immigrants … arriving during childhood. Post-treatment effects are fairly high for male non-western immigrants and immigrants from Eastern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279305
-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events duration model and rich administrative data. We … other programmes. The effects are larger if programmes begin after six months of unemployment. Implications of our estimates …
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unemployment. Second, on average, geographical mobility had large, positive effects on the job finding rate, suggesting that either …How do dispersal policies affect labour market integration of refugee immigrants subjected to such policy? To … investigate this, we estimate the effects of location characteristics and the average effect of geographical mobility on the …
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on the effect of rent control on the length of individual unemployment duration. Theoretically, the effect is ambiguous …. Rent control reduces housing mobility and could very well spill-over to mobility in the labour market. On the other hand to …
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This paper investigates the effects of home-ownership on labour mobility and unemployment duration. We distinguish … between home-ownership and unemployment duration. Our empirical findings thus lend some support for the main mechanism behind … the so-called Oswald hypothesis, even if it does not find positive correlation between unemployment duration and home …
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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
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Labour market assimilation of Danish first generation male immigrants is analysed based on two panel data sets covering … the population of immigrants and 10% of the Danish population during 1984-1995. Wages and employment probabilities are … due to missing wage information. The results show that immigrants assimilate partially to Danes, but the assimilation …
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of immigrants from Norway, Poland, Turkey, and Iran is brought forth. The comparative approach shows that immigrants in …
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