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International trade and labor market integration of immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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Does official development assistance affect donor's export? : case of Korea
Noh, Bobae; Heshmati, Almas - 2017
bilateral export to recipient countries. The empirical analysis is based on data from 1996 to 2014 with 121 recipient countries …. Although the two models of determinants of ODA and its export effectiveness are highly interrelated, this kind of simultaneous … squares estimation method leads to accounting for twoways causal relationships between ODA and export while the endogeneity …
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Collateral damage? : labour market effects of competing with China - at home and abroad
Cabral, Sónia; Martins, Pedro S.; Santos, João Pereira dos - 2020
measure the indirect effects stemming from increased export competition in third markets. Our findings, based on matched …
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Occupational regulation, institutions, and migrants' labor market outcomes
Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022
We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their representation among licensed, certified, and unionized workers. We provide evidence of a dual role of labor market institutions, which both screen workers based on unobservable...
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The more the gloomier : development of informal employment and its effect on wages in Turkey
Duman, Anil; Duman, Alper - 2021
Various studies found wage gaps between formal and informal sector workers even after controlling for a number of individual and firm level characteristics. It has also been shown that earnings differentials across these sectors are quite stable over the years. While there is limited amount of...
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Wage theft, economic conditions, and market power : the case of H-1B workers
DeVaro, Jed; Norlander, Peter - 2021
This study explores what determines employers' violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas, which occur when firms pay those workers below the promised prevailing or "market" wage. A theoretical framework is proposed that predicts more violations during economic...
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Wage effects of educational mismatch according toworkers' origin : the role of demographics and firm characteristics
Jacobs, Valentine; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2021
This paper analyses the wage effects of educational mismatch by workers' origin using a sizeable, detailed matched employer-employee dataset for Belgium. Relying on a fine-grained approach to measuring educational mismatch, the results show that over-educated workers, regardless of their origin,...
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Telework and time use
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2021
This chapter reviews the evidence on the relationship between telework and households' time allocation, drawing heavily on the empirical evidence from time diary data, and discusses the implications of telework for workers' productivity, wages, labor force participation, and well-being as well...
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Off to a bad start: youth nonemployment and labor market outcomes later in life
Filomenaa, Mattia; Giorgettia, Isabella; Picchio, Matteo - 2022
We estimate the effect of nonemployment experienced by Italian youth after leaving secondary school on subsequent labor market outcomes. We focus on the impact on earnings and labor market participation both in the short- and in the long-term, up to 25 years since school completion. By...
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Informal employment and wages in Poland
Liwiński, Jacek - 2021
Purpose: This paper tries to identify the wage gap between informal and formal workers and tests for the two-tier structure of the informal labour market in Poland. Design/methodology/approach: I employ the propensity score matching (PSM) technique and use data from the Polish Labour Force...
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