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Spatial-Ethnic Inequalities : The Role of Location in the Estimation of Ethnic Wage Differentials
Longhi, Simonetta - 2017
Analyses of ethnic and racial wage differentials neglect the fact that minorities cluster in urban and in more deprived areas. This paper estimates ethnic wage differentials by comparing minorities to the majority in the same local labour market and therefore facing similar socio-economic...
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Accounting for Firms in Ethnicity Wage Gaps Throughout the Earnings Distribution
Phan, Van; Singleton, Carl; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John; … - 2022
Ethnicity wage gaps in Great Britain are large and have persisted over time. Previous studies of these gaps have been almost exclusively confined to analyses of household data, so they could not account for the role played by individual employers, despite growing evidence of their wage-setting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083696
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Beyond the DSGE Straitjacket
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
Academic macroeconomics and the research department of central banks have come to be dominated by Dynamic, Stochastic, General Equilibrium (DSGE) models based on micro-foundations of optimising representative agents with rational expectations. We argue that the dominance of this particular sort...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126144
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Striking a Balance : Optimal Tax Policy with Labor Market Duality
Mbara, Gilbert - 2020
This paper develops a dynamic general equilibrium model where employers may avoid making social security contributions by offering some workers "secondary contracts". When calibrated using aggregate tax revenue data, the model delivers estimates of secondary "off the books" employment that are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012824425
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The Impact of Labor Markets on the Transmission of Monetary Policy in an Estimated DSGE Model
Christoffel, Kai Philipp; Kuester, Keith; Linzert, Tobias - 2021
Real wages are a key determinant of marginal costs. The latter themselves are a driving force of inflation. We ask how wages and labor market shocks feed into the inflation process. We model search and matching frictions in the labour market in an otherwise standard New-Keynesian closed economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318057
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Trade and Migration with Renewable Natural Resources : Out-of-Steady-State Dynamics
López, Ramón - 2010
Commodity price increases associated with the entry of China, India and other countries into the world economy has led to increased pressure on common-property renewable natural resources (NR). The problem is particularly worrisome for economies that obtain a large share of their income from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013143683
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Spatial Versus Social Mismatch : The Strength of Weak Ties
Zenou, Yves - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129913
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Location Choices of Migrant Nest-Leavers : Spatial Assimilation or Continued Segregation?
Zorlu, Aslan - 2010
We examine ethnic differences in the ethnic composition of the destination neighbourhood upon leaving the parental home using administrative data for the entire birth cohort 1983 living in the Netherlands. The analysis provides little evidence of a clear intergenerational break in the location...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138738
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Ethnic Segregation in Germany
Glitz, Albrecht - 2012
This paper provides a comprehensive description of the nature and extent of ethnic segregation in Germany. Using … substantial ethnic segregation across both workplaces and residential locations and that the extent of segregation has been … relatively stable over the last 30 years. Workplace segregation is particularly pronounced in agriculture and mining …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099729
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Segregation, Choice Based Letting and Social Housing : How Housing Policy Can Affect the Segregation Process
van Ham, Maarten - 2014
In this chapter we investigate the process of ethnic minority segregation in English social housing. Successive …
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