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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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Has COVID-19 Induced Labor Market Mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK
Pizzinelli, Carlo; Shibata, Ippei - 2022
This paper studies whether labor market mismatch played an important role for labor market dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. We apply the framework of S¸ahin et al. (2014) to the US and the UK to measure misallocation between job seekers and vacancies across sectors until the third quarter...
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Household Production, Services and Monetary Policy
Lonkeng Ngouana, Constant - 2012
A distinctive feature of market-provided services is that some of them have close substitutes at home. Households may therefore switch between consuming home and market services in response to changes in the real wage - the opportunity cost of working at home - and changes in the price of market...
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Resource Misallocation Among Listed Firms in China : The Evolving Role of State-Owned Enterprises
Jurzik, Emilia; Ruane, Cian - 2021
We document that publicly listed Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are less productive and profitable than publicly listed firms in which the state has no ownership stake. In particular, Chinese listed SOEs are more capital intensive and have a lower average product of capital than...
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Endogenous Growth, Downward Wage Rigidities and Optimal Inflation
Abbritti, Mirko; Consolo, Agostino; Weber, Sebastian - 2022
-run Phillips curve between inflation and unemployment and a trade-off between price distortions and output hysteresis that change … hysteresis effects on unemployment and output. Price level targeting or a Taylor-rule responding to the unemployment rate can …
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Can Women Save Japan?
Steinberg, Chad - 2012
Japan's potential growth rate is steadily falling with the aging of its population. This paper explores the extent to which raising female labor participation can help slow this trend. Using a cross-country database we find that smaller families, higher female education, and lower marriage rates...
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Are the French Happy with the 35-Hour Workweek?
Estevão, Marcello M. - 2008
Legally mandated reductions in the workweek can be either a constraint on individuals' choice or a tool to coordinate individuals' preferences for lower work hours. We confront these two hypotheses by studying the consequences of the workweek reduction in France from 39 to 35 hours, which was...
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The Low-Skill, Bad-Job Trap
Snower, Dennis J. - 2008
The paper explains how a country can fall into a quot;low-skill, bad-job trap,quot; in which workers acquire insufficient training and firms provide insufficient skilled vacancies. In particular, the paper argues that in countries where a large proportion of the workforce is unskilled, firms...
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Structural Unemployment in Luxembourg : Bad Luck or Rational Choice?
Gbohoui, William - 2019
This paper combines both micro and macro approaches to identify the drivers of (un)employment and inactivity in … unemployment. High unemployment of young and low-skilled workers reflects substantial unemployment traps, while disincentives for … (respectively seniors). Further reduction of structural unemployment requires better integration of vulnerable groups into the labor …
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A Quantitative Analysis of Female Employment in Senegal
Malta, Vivian - 2019
Female-to-male employment in Senegal increased by 14 percentage points between 2006 and 2011. During the same period years of education of the working age population increased 27 percent for females and 13 percent for males, reducing gender gaps in education. In this paper, we quantitatively...
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