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Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the … country after a period of no-income. Employment characteristics and the country of origin play an important role in explaining … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten …
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In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two …
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Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...
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This research applies a task-based approach to measure and interpret changes in the employment structure of the 168 … employment growth. This result is robust to a variety of other explanations including industry composition, routinisation, and …
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We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
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Hundreds of millions of rural migrants have moved into Chinese cities since the early 1990s contributing greatly to … economic growth, yet, they are often blamed for reducing urban 'native' workers' employment opportunities, suppressing their … endogeneity problem our results show that rural migrants in urban China have modest positive or zero effects on the average …
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migrants among the displaced experience a lowered incidence of self-employment. Also, health costs and psychic costs can be … employment relationships or self-employed or less happy than their non-displaced counterparts. We also look at health and psychic …
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We examine how city size affect wage levels of cities (agglomeration externality) and how it influence surrounding cities (spill-over effect) in China for the period between 1995 and 2009. Using spatial fixed-effect panel data models and allowing for endogenous and exogenous spatial dependence,...
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This paper uses a new field survey of low-wage areas of urban India to show that employment and earnings were decimated …
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the housing bust. An analysis of employment and unemployment rates over the past 15 years shows that immigrants' labor … market outcomes are more cyclical than those of natives. The greater cyclicality of immigrants' employment and unemployment …-sensitive employment outcomes than college-educated natives …
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