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Immigration continues to shape labor market dynamics, yet its gender-specific effects remain understudied. This study revisits the Mariel Boatlift, when about 125,000 Cubans arrived in Miami in 1980, increasing the local labor supply by 7%, to examine its impact on native women's labor market...
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refugees and other migrants and compare the employment probability gap between refugees, other migrants, and natives. I also … examine whether refugees have a lower employment outcome than other migrants and to what extent the level of education …, language proficiency, health status, years since migration, and cohort effects explain the employment gap between the refugees …
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to employment, wages, prices and household well-being. The meta-analysis finds that most results on employment and wages … are non-significant. When significant, decreases in employment and wages are more likely to occur than increases with …
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migrants in the host country. A number of employment outcomes are examined including access to employment, access to stable … employment, the wage/earnings level and the education-occupation mismatch. By using a recently collected panel survey data in … labour market integration of refugees in the host country. The paper highlights the differentiated impacts of these resources …
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integration of refugees. The policy added new requirements for refugees to actively search for jobs and to participate in on …
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which asylum seekers are as good as randomly allocated. During our study period from 2011 to 2014, the employment rate among …
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Our paper examines the effects of the significant 2019 minimum wage hike in Spain on labour market outcomes, prices, and firm bankruptcies. We use the synthetic control method (SCM) to analyze the impact of the policy on the Spanish economy. We find no significant impact of the minimum wage...
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This paper investigates the effects of shocks, predominantly climate shocks, on labor market outcomes in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). We focus on migration ows within the WAEMU countries to disentangle the differential effects of shocks on migrants and non-migrants. Our...
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builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … in the extent to which self-employment after marriage is available to women to compensate for the reduction in wage … employment opportunities. …
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connected economy. Disembodied technological change turns out to positively affect employment dynamics in the "upstream" sectors …
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