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Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2018
influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late … 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930913
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The Impact of the Post-Brexit Migration System on the UK Labour Market
Portes, Jonathan; Springford, John - 2023
The end of free movement and the introduction of the post-Brexit migration system represents a major structural change to the UK labour market. We provide a descriptive assessment of the impact on a sectoral basis. We examine how overall labour force growth has differed between sectors, both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261476
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Labour Market Expectations and Unemployment in Europe
Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2023
Unemployment is notoriously difficult to predict. In previous studies, once country and year fixed effects are added to panel estimates, few variables predict changes in unemployment rates. Using panel data for 29 European countries collected by the European Commission over 444 months between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014261669
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The Impact of the Recent Expansion of the EU on the UK Labour Market
Blanchflower, David; Lawton, Helen - 2021
We examine the impact on the UK of the influx of workers from Eastern Europe. We look at the characteristics of the workers who have come to the UK since 2004. We also use data from a number of Eurobarometers 2004-2007 as well as the 2005 Work Orientation module International Social Survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324974
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Declining Migration within the US : The Role of the Labor Market
Molloy, Raven - 2014
Interstate migration has decreased steadily since the 1980s. We show that this trend is not primarily related to demographic and socioeconomic factors, but instead appears to be connected to a concurrent secular decline in labor market transitions. We explore a number of reasons for the declines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054583
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Labour Market Adjustments in Europe and the US : How Different?
Beyer, Robert - 2015
We compare the labour market response to region-specific shocks in Europe and the US and to national shocks in Europe and investigate changes over time. We employ a multi-level factor model to decompose regional labour market variables and then estimate the dynamic response of the employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025742
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Employment Protection Reform in Search Economies
Malherbet, Franck; l'Haridon, Olivier - 2021
contours of the EPL reform. In this article we used an equilibrium unemployment model to investigate the virtue of an EPL … reform whose modality is a lessening in the red tape and legal costs associated with layoffs and the introduction of an U ….S. like experience rating system modelled as a combination of a layoff tax and a payroll subsidy. The reform considered shows …
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A Narrative Database of Labour Market Reforms in Euro Area Economies
Aumond, Romain; Tommaso, Valerio Di; Rünstler, Gerhard - 2022
We present a quarterly narrative database of important labour market reforms in selected euro area economies in between 1995 and 2018 covering 60 events. We provide legal adoption and implementation dates of major reforms to employment protection legislation and unemployment benefits. Estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013296525
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A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Market Performance of University‐Educated Immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States : Does Policy Matter?
Clarke, Andrew James - 2018
We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926700
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Sovereign Credit Ratings and Financial Markets Linkages : Application to European Data
Afonso, António - 2011
We use EU sovereign bond yield and CDS spreads daily data to carry out an event study analysis on the reaction of government yield spreads before and after announcements from rating agencies (Standard & Poor's, Moody's, Fitch). Our results show: significant responses of government bond yield...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124928