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The Role of Constitutions on Poverty : A Cross-National Investigation
Minkler, Alanson - 2015
In this paper we use novel historical data on economics and social rights from the constitutions of 201 countries and an instrument variable strategy to answer two important questions. First, do economic and social rights provisions in constitutions reduce poverty? Second, does the strength of...
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Foreign Labour Migration and the Economic Crisis in the EU : Ongoing and Remaining Issues of the Migrant Workforce in Germany
Kim, Anna Myunghee - 2010
migrants in most of the major receiving states of the EU, the status of the predominantly low-skilled sector-employed migrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139038
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Unemployment of Non-Western Immigrants in the Great Recession
Cerveny, Jakub - 2013
This paper examines whether unemployment of non-western immigrant workers in the Netherlands was disproportionally affected by the Great Recession. We analyze unemployment data covering the period November 2007 to February 2013 finding that the Great Recession affected unemployment rates of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076157
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Immigrant Birthcountry Networks and Unemployment Duration : Evidence Around the Great Recession
Mundra, Kusum - 2016
Using data from the CPS this paper examines the role of birth-country networks on immigrants' unemployment duration from 2001 to 2013. We find that networks significantly lower unemployment duration for all immigrants. Varying the effect of networks over duration categories we find that networks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982118
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How Immigrants Helped EU Labor Markets to Adjust During the Great Recession
Kahanec, Martin - 2017
The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...
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The Adverse Effect of the COVID-19 Labor Market Shock on Immigrant Employment
Borjas, George J. - 2020
Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the initial repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper uses data from the CPS Basic Monthly Files to document that the employment decline was particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833269
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Immigrant Key Workers : Their Contribution to Europe's COVID-19 Response
Fasani, Francesco - 2020
This note describes the contribution of migrant workers to the ongoing effort to keep basic services running in the Union during the COVID-19 epidemic. We quantify the prevalence of migrant workers in the so called "key professions" that the Commission and Member States have identified using the...
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The Early Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic on the Labour Market Outcomes of Natives and Migrants in the UK
Morando, Greta - 2022
It has been found that migrants and natives are affected differently by fluctuations in the business cycle. This paper … using UK data, it finds that unemployment has increased for both natives and migrants as has, consequently, the benefits … which are aimed to support non-employed households. The rise in these outcomes is particularly important for EU migrants. EU …
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Covid-19 Crisis Fuels Hostility Against Foreigners
Bartos, Vojtech - 2020
Intergroup conflicts represent one of the most pressing problems facing human society. Sudden spikes in aggressive behavior, including pogroms, often take place during periods of economic hardship or health pandemics, but little is known about the underlying mechanism behind such change in...
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Modelling the Distributional Impact of the COVID-19 Crisis
O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2020
Given the rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus, the State has had to respond rapidly and quite severely to flatten the curve and slow the spread of the virus. This has had significant implications for many aspects of life with differential impacts across the population. The lack of timely...
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