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The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...
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The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market … results shed light on the extent to which immigrants adjust to labour market imperfections and barriers to employment and … first study to systematically study the nexus between overeducation and self-employment in a comparative framework. Moreover …
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As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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between human capital and labour market participation and employment status among recently arrived/approved humanitarian … migrants. It includes attention to the heterogeneity of labour force participation and employment status across genders and …
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Using longitudinal data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper investigates how pro-active time-use (e.g., in sports/arts/socializing) relates to subjective well-being of the unemployed and their probability of finding a new job. Allowing for a variety of socio-demographic and...
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This paper examines the wage earnings of fully-employed previous refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative employer-employee data from 1990 onwards, about 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted asylum, are compared to a matched sample of...
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informal and formal workers, both at the means and along the wage distribution. I use two definitions of informal employment: a …) employment without a written agreement and b) employment while officially registered as unemployed at a labour office. In order … to reduce the bias resulting from the non-random selection of individuals into informal employment, I use a rich set of …
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This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much larger. Therefore, we point to the clear...
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literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of student employment on later labour market … of student work and we examine for the first time what exactly is being signalled by student employment. We do this by … responsibility, an increased motivation, and more maturity, only student employment in line with a job candidate’s field of study is …
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This paper examines the impact of the Anglophone Conflict in Cameroon on human capital accumulation. Using high-quality individual-level data on test scores and information on conflict-related violent events, a difference-in-differences design is employed to estimate the conflict's causal...
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