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the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the … through immigration increases the aggregate unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage points and reduces average wages by … less 0.1 percent. While native workers benefit from increased wages and lower unemployment, foreign workers are adversely …
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In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the...
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natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …
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Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at all. Using a unique database from a survey of young...
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This article presents and explores a rich new data source to analyse the determinants of pay and job rank amongst academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be important determinants of the relative wage and...
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immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile … immigrants. The decomposition results clearly indicate a significant growing gap with higher wages for both foreigners (13.6 to … 17.6 %) and naturalised immigrants (10.0 to 16.4 %). The findings further display a low explanation for the wage gap in …
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, overall, education and labor market experience accumulated in the home countries of the immigrants receive significantly lower … immigrants across origin countries. Finally, imperfect human capital transferability appears to be a major factor in explaining … the wage differential between natives and immigrants …
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structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs …
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differential. For instance, a large wage penalty occurs in the U.S. among female immigrants from non-English speaking countries …
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