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bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …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 …
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natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …
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This paper tests whether amnesty, a provision of the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA), affected the labor … market outcomes of the legalized population. Using the Legalized Population Survey (LPS) and the National Longitudinal Survey … amnesty on the legalized population relative to a comparison group. After the implementation of the amnesty program …
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unemployment in five former communist economies and inthe western part of Germany (a benchmark western economy) to examine the … evolution ofunemployment together with that of inflows into unemployment and vacancies...<br< …
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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...
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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 sense that they are jointly hired and fired. Controlling...
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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...
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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 …
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enlarged-EU migrants on the native population, the paper concludes with a discussion on lessons learned …
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Over the last decade house prices increased remarkably in many countries. However, whilein several countries there was an employment boom in the construction sector, in others theshare of employment in this sector did not significantly change...
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