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COVID-19 labour market shocks and their inequality implications for financial wellbeing
Botha, Ferdi; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; New, Sonja C. de; … - 2020
Using an online survey of Australian residents, we elicit the potential impacts of COVID-19 related labour market shocks on a validated measure of financial wellbeing. Experiencing a reduction in hours and earnings, entering into unemployment or having to file for unemployment benefits during...
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Social networks and (political) assimilationin the age of mass migration
Biavaschi, Costanza; Giulietti, Corrado; Zenou, Yves - 2022
This paper investigates the causal pathways through which ethnic social networks influence individual naturalization. Using the complete-count Census of 1930, we digitize information on the exact residence of newly arrived immigrants in New York City. This allows us to define networks with a...
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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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Run, graduate, run : internationally mobile students' reactions to changing political landscapes in Europe
Weisser, Reinhard A. - 2021
Over the last decades, Europe attracted an increasing number of internationally mobile students. The related influx of talent into European labour markets constituted an important factor to the knowledge economy. This research addresses the question whether changing political landscapes in...
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Retirement, housing mobility, downsizing and neighbourhood quality : a causal investigation
Ha Trong Nguyen; Mitrou, Francis; Zubrick, Stephen R. - 2021
This paper provides the first causal evidence on the impact of retirement on housing choices. Our empirical strategy exploits the discontinuity in the eligibility ages for state pension as an instrument for the endogenous retirement decision and controls for time-invariant individual...
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Population adjustment to asymmetric labour market shocks in India : a comparison to Europe and the United States at two different regional levels
Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022
changes as proxies for regional migration. Comparing the results with those for the United States and the European Union, the … regional shocks by adjusting up to a third of a regional non-employment shock through migration within two years. This is …
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Climate shocks, migration, and labor markets : a gender analysis from West Africa
El-Mallakh, Nelly; Wodon, Quentin - 2021
African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). We focus on migration ows within the WAEMU countries to disentangle the … show that migration in the WAEMU is associated with a decline in female labor participation, as it is primarily motivated … robust to accounting for the double selection into shocks and migration using a Propensity Score Matching technique that …
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Identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants
Carillo, Maria R.; Lombardo, Vincenzo; Venittelli, Tiziana - 2021
This paper explores the relationship between social identity and labor market outcomes of immigrants. Using survey data from Italy, we provide robust evidence that immigrants with stronger feelings of belonging to the societies of both the host and home country have higher employment rates,...
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Social barriers to female migration : theory and evidence from Bangladesh
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2020
Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of … using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are able to match with migrating grooms. Guided by a … theoretical model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets …
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A strictly economic explanation of gender roles : the lasting legacy of the plough.
Cigno, Alessandro - 2020
We show that the descendants of ancient farmers may have an interest in marrying among themselves, and thus maintaining the gendered division of labour, originally justiÖed on comparativeadvantage grounds by the advent of the plough, even after they emigrate to a modern industrial economy where...
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