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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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the period 1980-2006. We also collect data on time-varying immigration policies that regulate the entry of immigrants for … elasticity is twice as high for within-EU migration, reflecting the higher degree of labor mobility within the European Union. We …
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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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two main contributions. First, we use more sophisticated measures of the degree of exposure to competition from immigrants …
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We investigate whether competitive selection processes generate gender inequality in the context of a prestigious graduate fellowship program. All applications are scored remotely by expert reviewers and the highest ranked are invited to an in-person interview. The data show a very large gender...
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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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This paper empirically analyzes the effects of immigration on the schooling decisions of natives. We employ household-level data for Spain for years 2000-2012, a period characterized by a large immigration wave and a severe recession. Our estimates reveal that Spanish households responded to...
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Ecuador has become the third largest receiver of the 4.3 million Venezuelans that left their country in the last five years, hosting around 10% of them. Little is known about the characteristics of these migrants and their labor market outcomes. This paper fills this gap, analyzing a new large...
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