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Crime and Immigration : Evidence from Large Immigrant Waves
Bell, Brian - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an opportunity to carefully appraise whether the populist view that immigrants cause crime is borne out by rigorous evidence. We consider possible crime effects from two large waves...
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Task-Biased Changes of Employment and Remuneration : The Case of Occupations
Kampelmann, Stephan - 2011
Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130457
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Migraine Headache and Labor Market Outcomes
Rees, Daniel I. - 2012
While migraine headache can be physically debilitating, no study has attempted to estimate its effects on labor market outcomes. Using data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, we estimate the effect of migraine headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096472
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Labor Market Transitions of Members of Opposite-Sex Couples : Nonparticipation, Unemployed Search, and Employment
Bloemen, Hans - 2022
transitions between the states of nonparticipation, unemployed search, and employment. Motivated by a model of household search … nonparticipation (both out of unemployed search and employment) are positively affected by the husband's income (while no effect is … found for transitions out of nonparticipation). Men seem to move from employment into unemployed search easier the higher is …
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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries
Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021
, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …
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The Economic Integration of Forced Migrants : Evidence for Post-War Germany
Bauer, Thomas K. - 2011
The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest forced population movements in history. We analyze the economic integration of these forced migrants and their offspring in West Germany. The empirical results suggest that even a...
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Ethnic Networks and the Employment of Asylum Seekers : Evidence from Germany
Stips, Felix - 2020
-national networks on formal labor market access of asylum seekers. While the individual employment probability is not linked to network …
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Settlement Location Shapes Refugee Integration : Evidence from Post-War Germany
Braun, Sebastian - 2019
Following one of the largest displacements in human history, almost eight million forced migrants arrived in West Germany after WWII. We study empirically how the settlement location of migrants affected their economic, social and political integration in West Germany. We first document large...
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The Effect of Refugees on Native Adolescents' Test Scores : Quasi-Experimental Evidence from PISA
Tumen, Semih - 2021
Existing evidence suggests that low-skilled refugee influx may increase educational attainment among native adolescents due to reduced opportunities and returns in the lower segment of the labor market. In this paper, I test whether refugee influx can also increase the intensity of human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250771
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Immigration Policy, Assimilation of Immigrants and Natives' Sentiments Towards Immigrants : Evidence from 12 Oecd-Countries
Zimmermann, Klaus F.; Bauer, Thomas K.; Lofstrom, Magnus - 2021
are relatively more concerned with immigrations impact on social issues such as crime than on the employment effects …
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