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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 estimated jointly in a random effects model which...
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This article compares and contrasts male immigrant labor market experiences in Sweden and Denmark during the period 1985 - 1995. Using register-based panel data sets from Sweden and Denmark, a picture of the employment assimilation process of immigrants from Norway, Poland, Turkey, and Iran is...
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unemployment into either new job or recall. The recall probability is allowed to affect the search intensity for new jobs. …
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unemployment and labour market exclusion. The main findings of the study are that low levels of education and working experience … unemployment and nonparticipation. There is also evidence of budget constraints that eventually lead to decreasing reservation … wages or increasing search intensity, as unemployment spells become very long. We discuss some policy implications of our …
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In this paper we investigate whether unemployment traps exist and are significant in the transition from unemployment … periods of unemployment in the past is particularly important: long-term unemployed people have difficulties in re …-integrating the labour market and they obtain low salaries when they succeed in finding employment. Long unemployment spells are …
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on the effect of rent control on the length of individual unemployment duration. Theoretically, the effect is ambiguous …
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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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