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structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs …
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and job mobility. Across education groups permanent shocks to productivity have become more dispersed. Moreover …
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duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. General …
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-employee data to measure mean- and quantile-wage differentials of immigrants and ethnic minorities, both within and across firms. We …
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gap is left unexplained.In sum, these results are consistent with the presence of income discrimination towards females …
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Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...
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The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied … of overeducation among non-Western immigrants. We also analyze whether there is state-dependence in overeducation and … extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by investigating whether this is a more severe problem among immigrants …
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that immigrants with lower unobserved skills and with a higher unobserved propensity to migrate early have a faster …
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A wide class of models with On-the-Job Search (OJS) predicts that workers gradually select into better-paying jobs. We develop a simple methodology to test predictions implied by OJS using two sources of identification: (i) time-variation in job-finding rates and (ii) the time since the last...
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Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …
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