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We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor force participation and hours worked of second-generation immigrants who reside in 26 European countries. These individuals are born in Europe, and they have been exposed to...
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We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle. We analyze both the short run incentive effects and the longer run implications of such programs. By allowing for risk aversion and...
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Immigration to the UK has risen over time. Existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native … immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series of British cross …-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s. This lack of substitution also …
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We explore the far-reaching implications of replacing current unemployment benefit (UB) systems by an unemployment accounts (UA) system. Under the UA system, employed people are required to make ongoing contributions to their UAs and the balances in these accounts are available to them during...
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This paper uses the French and the UK Labour Force Surveys and the German Microcensus to estimate the effects of different components of the labour force on innovation at the sectoral level between 1994 and 2005. The authors focus, in particular, on the contribution of migrant workers. We adopt...
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Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and … suggest that immigration exhibits negative effects on native employment and wages, and has no effects on total employment …. Imports affect employment negatively and exports have a positive effect on wages. The German results indicate that immigration …
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college education cannot universally be considered an insurance against unpredictability of wages. One conclusion is …
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This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countries with markedly different … labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark. To do so we use individual level data sets for the three countries …
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This article investigates the relationship between individual wages and height using the German Socio-Economic Panel … height effects on wages are curvilinear. During the considered period from 1985 to 2004 we observe a slightly nonlinear … falling trend. After controlling for time effects a nonlinear relationship between individual height and wages remains with a …
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