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newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers …
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to document that the employment decline was particularly severe for immigrants. Historically, immigrant men were more …-of-work immigrants could find jobs fell relative to the native job-finding rate. A small part of the relative increase in the immigrant … rate of job loss arises because immigrants were less likely to work in jobs that could be performed remotely and suffered …
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to be called the Great Recession. Next we look at the labour market and how employment and unemployment have been …
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This paper focuses particularly on youth unemployment, why we should be concerned about it, why it is increasing again … adulthood unemployment creates long lasting scars which affect labour market outcomes much later in life. Our chosen variables … are weekly wages and happiness. Our results show significant effects at age 50 from early adulthood unemployment. These …
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The immense literature on discrimination treats outcomes as relative: One group suffers compared to another. But does a … endophilic? This difference matters, as the relative importance of the types of discrimination and their inter-relation affect … or did not contain the students' names, on average we find favoritism but no discrimination by nationality, and neither …
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We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self‐selection of migrants than previously realized. The same conditions that have been shown to result in positive or negative selection in terms of expected earnings also imply a stochastic dominance relationship between the...
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Using several microeconomic data sets from the United States and the Netherlands, and the examples of height and beauty, this study examines whether: 1) Absolute or relative differences in a characteristic are what affect labor-market and other outcomes; and 2) The effects of a characteristic...
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, but sustainable, recovery. Improvement in the labor market may take some time, but many believe that unemployment will … consequences for unemployment may be worse than anticipated …
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