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Immigration and employment : substitute versus complementary labor in selected African countries
Viseth, Arina - 2020
This paper uses census and household survey data on Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa to examine immigration's impact … in the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-Saharan Africa. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii … the impact depends on the degree of complementarity between immigrants and native workers' skills. Immigration is found to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300611
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Three Million Foreigners, Three Million Unemployed? : Immigration and the French Labor Market
Gross, Dominique M. - 1999
and mid-1990s. Using a system of equations for unemployment, labor-force participation, the real wage, and the immigration … that of an increase in domestic labor-force participation. The composition of immigration flows matters, and the proportion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401044
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Immigration Flows and Regional Labor Market Dynamics
Gross, Dominique M. - 1998
immigrants are analyzed. It is found that immigration is positively related to unemployment in the short run but in the long run …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400836
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Inclusivity in the labor market
ElGanainy, Asmaa Adel; Ernst, Ekkehard; Merola, Rossana; … - 2021
Labor earnings are the dominant income source for most individuals. Thus, an inclusive labor market is key for ensuring inclusive growth. In this paper we propose four principles that an inclusive labor market will embody: access, fairness, protection and voice. While measuring inclusivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012613377
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The labor market integration of migrants in Europe : new evidence from micro data
Ho, Giang; Turk Ariss, Rima - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011932485
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Immigration and wage dynamics in Germany
Klinger, Sabine; Musayev, Anvar; Natal, Jean-Marc; … - 2019
-level administrative data - that large immigration flows since 2012 have had dampening effects on aggregate wage growth, as complementarity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012155220
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Are low-skill women being left behind? : labor market evidence from the UK
Dabla-Norris, Era; Pizzinelli, Carlo; Rappaport, Jay - 2022
Labor markets in the UK have been characterized by markedly widening wage inequality for lowskill (non-college) women, a trend that predates the pandemic. We examine the contribution of job polarization to this trend by estimating age, period, and cohort effects for the likelihood of employment...
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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 Sahin and others (2014) to the US and the UK to measure misallocation between job seekers and vacancies across sectors until the third...
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Mitigating long-term unemployment in Europe
Miyamoto, Hiroaki; Suphaphiphat, Nujin - 2020
While unemployment rates in Europe declined after the global financial crisis until 2018/19, the incidence of long-term unemployment, the share of people who have been unemployed for more than one year to the total unemployed, remained high. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic could aggravate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012301932
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Labor market slack and the output gap : the case of Korea
Hansen, Niels-Jakob Harbo; Mongardini, Joannes; Zhang, Fan - 2019
Output gap estimates are widely used to inform macroeconomic policy decisions, including in Korea. The main determinant of these estimates is the measure of labor market slack. The traditional measure of unemployment in Korea yields an incomplete estimate of labor market slack, given that many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102193