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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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Using matched employer-employee data, we analyse the impact of immigrants on natives' employment in Portugal. Using … different model specifications, we show that the natives and immigrants are 'complements' at most occupation levels, in the … the skills spectrum are not affected by the presence of immigrants as well …
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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 analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...
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We address the impact of education upon wage inequality by drawing on evidence from fifteen European countries, during a period ranging between 1980 and 1995. We focus on within-educational-levels wage inequality by estimating quantile regressions of Mincer equations and analysing the...
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serious pitfalls. Three canonical variates used in the literature – the minimum unemployment rate during a worker's time at … the firm (min u), the unemployment rate at the start of her tenure (Su) and the current unemployment rate interacted with … because a differential wage response to unemployment of new hires and incumbents will appear under both equal treatment and …
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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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, 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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