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What's Up with U.S. Wage Growth and Job Mobility?
Danninger, Stephan - 2016
-15 Current Population Survey, I find that the drawn-out cyclical labor market repair - likely owing to low entry wages of new … wages: for full-time, full-employed workers, the Wage-Phillips curve - the empirical relationship between wage growth and …
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The Labor Market Performance of Immigrants in Germany
Beyer, Robert - 2016
The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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Feeling the Heat : Climate Shocks and Credit Ratings
Cevik, Serhan; Jalles, João Tovar - 2021
Climate change is an existential threat to the world economy like no other, with complex, evolving and nonlinear dynamics that remain a source of great uncertainty. There is a bourgeoning literature on the economic impact of climate change, but research on how climate change affects sovereign...
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The Distributional Impacts of Worker Reallocation : Evidence from Europe
Bluedorn, John C.; Caselli, Francesca; Hansen, Niels-Jakob - 2022
Using individual-level data for 30 European countries between 1983 and 2019, we document the extent and earning consequences of workers’ reallocation across occupations and industries and how these outcomes vary with individual-level characteristics, namely (i) education, (ii) gender, and...
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What Matters for Job Finding and Separation in the Long Run? Evidence from Labor Market Dynamics in New Zealand
Zheng, Guanyu; Nolan, Gulnara; Ball, Christopher; … - 2022
We use the novel anonymized Household Labour Force Survey (HLFS) microdata to analyze job finding rates and job separation rates in New Zealand. We find that individual characteristics, including age, gender, ethnicity and education have a significant impact on job finding and separation rates,...
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Structural Transformation and the Agricultural Wage Gap
Alvarez, Jorge - 2018
A key feature of developing economies is that wages in agriculture are significantlybelow those of other sectors. Using …
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Tax Evasion from Cross-Border Fraud : Does Digitalization Make a Difference?
Kitsios, Emmanouil; Jalles, João Tovar; Verdier, Genevieve - 2021
technologies offers an opportunity to reduce fraud and increase government revenue. Using data on intra-EU and world trade … transactions, we present evidence that (i) cross-border trade tax fraud is non-trivial and prevalent in many countries; (ii) such … digitalization from reducing trade fraud could be substantial. Halving the distance to the digitalization frontier could raise …
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Peering Through the Fog of Uncertainty : Out-of-Sample Forecasts of Post-Pandemic Tourism
Cevik, Serhan - 2023
This paper uses an augmented gravity model framework to investigate the historical impact of infectious diseases on international tourism and develops an out-of-sample prediction model. Using bilateral tourism flows among 38,184 pairs of countries during the period 1995–2017, I compare the...
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The Labor Market Integration of Migrants in Europe : New Evidence from Micro Data
Ho, Giang - 2018
This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the labor market integration of migrants across Europe. It investigates how successfully migrants integrate in 13 European countries by applying a unified framework to analyze a rich micro dataset with over ten million individuals surveyed between...
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How Do Migration and Remittances Affect Inequality? A Case Study of Mexico
Koczan, Zsoka - 2018
The poverty-reducing effects of remittances have been well-documented, however, their effects on inequality are less clear. This paper examines the impact of remittances on inequality in Mexico using household-level information on the receiving side. It hopes to speak to their insurance role by...
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