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Migration, Crisis and Adjustment in an Enlarged E(M)U : The Spanish Perspective
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2014
enlarged-EU migrants on the native population, the paper concludes with a discussion on lessons learned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055554
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Migration and Imperfect Labor Markets : Theory and Cross-Country Evidence from Denmark, Germany and the UK
Brücker, Herbert - 2012
We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are characterized by considerable differences in labor market institutions and welfare states. Institutions such as collective bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103489
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Do Immigrants Displace Native Workers? Evidence from Matched Panel Data
Martins, Pedro S. - 2012
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 sense that they are jointly hired and fired. Controlling...
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The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Native-Born Canadians
Tu, Jiong - 2010
Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship between changes in the share of immigrants by sub-labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139049
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Do Legal Immigrants and Natives Compete in the Labour Market? Evidence from Catalonia
Diaz-Serrano, Luis - 2010
The precondition for labour-market competition between immigrants and natives is that both are willing to accept jobs that do not differ in quality. To test this hypothesis, in this paper we compare the working conditions between immigrants and natives in Catalonia. Comparing immigrants' working...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148341
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Citizenship, Co-Ethnic Populations and Employment Probabilities of Immigrants in Sweden
Bevelander, Pieter - 2009
demographic, human capital, and municipal characteristics such as city and co-ethnic population size. The information we employ … for this analysis consists of register data on the whole population of Sweden held by Statistics Sweden for the year 2006 …-immigrant population on the probability of being employed. In contrast to Scott (2008), we find that citizenship acquisition has a positive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155308
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The Dutch Labour Market Early on in the Covid-19 Outbreak : Regional Coronavirus Hotspots and the National Lockdown
Hassink, Wolter H.J. - 2020
We explore the impact of COVID-19 hotspots and regional lockdowns on the Dutch labour market. Using weekly administrative panel microdata for 50 per cent of Dutch employees until the end of March 2020, we study whether individual labour market outcomes, as measured by employment, working hours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823320
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Persistencies in the Labour Market
Frijters, Paul - 2009
Using longitudinal income-tax registers, we study how past labour market outcomes affect current labour market transition rates. We focus on hysteresis effects of the durations and incidence of previous spells out of work. We estimate flexible multi-state Mixed Proportional Hazard specifications...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764655
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Job-Worker Mismatch and Cognitive Decline
de Grip, Andries - 2007
We have used longitudinal test data on various aspects of people's cognitive abilities to analyze whether overeducated workers are more vulnerable to a decline in their cognitive abilities, and undereducated workers are less vulnerable. We found that a job-worker mismatch induces a cognitive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776172
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Immigration, Integration and the Labour Market : Turkish Immigrants in Germany and the Netherlands
Euwals, Rob; Dagevos, Jaco; Gijsberts, Mérove; … - 2007
Germany and the Netherlands. We compare labour market outcomes of Turkish immigrants, including both the first and second … employment and tenured job rate remains large for the Netherlands, while the standardized gap in the job prestige score remains … large for Germany. Differences in past immigration policies between Germany and the Netherlands are likely to be important …
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