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. Marginal employment is a type of wage subsidy paid to unemployed workers and they do not lose their unemployment benefits if … during their unemployment spell suffer a (causal) penalty for doing so, relative to their peers who do not. The penalty, in … terms of less employment, more unemployment, lower wages, lessens over time but is still present after three years …
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Atypical employment, such as temporary, on-call, and contract work, has been found disproportionately to attract the jobless. But there is no consensus in the literature as to the labour market consequences of such job choice by unemployed individuals. Using data from the Current Population...
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the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …
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variables). Besides institutional variables influencing external numerical flexibility (employment protection, unemployment …
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For immigrants, intermarriage with natives is assumed to have an assimilating role due to the enhancement of local human capital such a union creates in the form of improved knowledge about host country institutions, language and customs as well as access to native spouses' networks and...
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This paper documents assimilation of immigrants in European destinations along cultural, civic, and economic dimensions, distinguishing by immigrants' generation, duration of stay, and origin. Based on the European Social Survey, it suggests that assimilation may have multiple facets, and take...
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The flight and expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe during and after World War II constitutes one of the largest …
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This paper assesses the employment and earnings trajectories of refugee and family reunion category immigrants in Canada and Sweden using two national level sources of data. The Canadian Immigration Database (IMDB) is a file that links the intake record of post 1979 immigrants with annual...
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barriers to social and labor market inclusion of immigrants in the European Union. The data from an online primary survey of … less negatively, barriers to immigrant labor market inclusion identified include language and human capital gaps, a lack of … active inclusion policies, especially in the areas of employment and education. These results appear to be robust with …
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A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but also of subsequent generations. Little comparative work exists for Europe's largest economies. France, Germany and the UK have all become, perhaps unwittingly, countries with...
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