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, housing tenue, income and wealth. Within couple households, housing mobility choices are primarily influenced by the wife …’s retirement while housing downsizing decisions are only affected by the husband’s retirement. The results suggest that failing to …
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language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design … model and their labor market earnings using the human capital earnings function that is estimated with an ordinary least … earnings, and those from countries with a greater concentration of Catholic missionaries exhibit lower levels of both, compared …
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We examine the heterogeneous impacts of foreign language use at work on earnings of both native-born workers and … work is found to have an unambiguously positive impact on their earnings (2% on average). Second, for foreign-born workers …
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women. Child Arrival immigrants landing in the Skilled Worker Class have earnings advantages (as adults) over their Family … classes to determine if there is an earnings benefit of the selection under the Economic Classes to: 1) the Adult Arrival … administrative data on landing records matched with subsequent income tax records that also allows for the linking of the records of …
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data to assess the effects of the policy change on non-EU labour migrants' labour-market outcomes, as measured by income …-migration reform had a negative effect on the migrants' annual income. However, this effect became marginal after controlling for … occupational level. We conclude that changes in their occupational composition were the main drivers of the income drop for non …
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In the standard macroeconomic search and matching model of the labor market, there is a tight link between the quantitative effects of (i) aggregate productivity shocks on unemployment and (ii) unemployment benefits on unemployment. This tight link is at odds with the empirical literature. We...
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We study how unemployment benefit eligibility affects the layoff exit rate by exploiting quasi-experimental variation in eligibility rules in Italy. By using a difference-indifferences estimator, we find an instantaneous increase of about 12% in the layoff probability when unemployment benefit...
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In 2012 a labour market reform, known as Fornero Law, substantially reduced firing restrictions for firms with more than 15 employees in Italy. The results from a difference in regression discontinuities design that compares firms below versus those above the cut-off before and after the reform...
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The Austrian Beveridge curve shifted in 2014, leading to ongoing academic discussions about the reasons behind this shift. While some have argued that the shift was caused by a supply shock due to labour market liberalization, others have stated that matching efficiency decreased. Using a new...
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.5 billion dollars in workers' labor income in 2015. Also, 36,000 workers would have affiliated to a union, had such reform not …
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