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Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country?s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...
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differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to … matching, bargaining and employers' taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women …
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receive higher wages than employed singles. The model is applied to a welfare analysis of alternative unemployment insurance …
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immigrants to be favorably selected, although this is less intense under the later criteria. The overall favorable selectivity of … immigrants, therefore, depends on the favorable selectivity of the supply of immigrants and the criteria used to ration …
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, that frictions (sand-in-the-wheels) may decrease unemployment and that the equilibrium is determined by two simple …
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Stronger enforcement of discrimination laws can help to reduce disparities in economic outcomes with respect to race …, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter …
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disparities, and segregation. The use of race as a signal arises here, as in models of statistical discrimination, from imperfect …
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The traditional model of taste discrimination in labor markets presumes perfect substitution, making it unsuitable for … the measurement of discrimination across job assignments. We extend the model to explain cross-assignment discrimination …-assignment discrimination depends upon racial productivity differences, the productivity x prejudice interaction, technology, relative labor …
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Do firms reduce employment when their insiders (established, incumbent employees) claim higher wages? The conventional answer in the theoretical literature is that insider power has no influence on employment, provided that the newly hired employees (entrants) receive their reservation wages....
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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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