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This chapter investigates the integration processes of immigrants in Germany by comparing certain immigrant groups to … Germany. …
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gender differences in job separation rates to employment and nonemployment. In line with descriptive evidence, we find lower … affect separations differently by gender. When additionally controlling for wages, we find that both separation rates are …
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Using 1995 - 2006 Current Population Survey and 1970 - 2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women's fertility and labor supply are significantly...
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differences, however, vary greatly across countries with migrants in Germany and Portugal faring best relative to natives, and …The paper uses the 1994-2000 waves of the European Community Household Panel to conduct a systematic analysis of the … those in Sweden, Denmark, Luxembourg or Spain the worst, particularly among non-EU born migrants. Gender differences are …
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Muslims do less well on the French labor market than their non Muslim counterparts. One explanation for this relative failure can be characterized by the following syllogism: (1) the empowerment of women is a sine qua non for economic progress; (2) in-group norms among Muslims do not empower...
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(though, owing to the gender earnings gap, from a much lower base). Multinomial logit estimations of employment, unemployment … (panel) data. By examining labor market transitions, earnings levels, and earnings growth and their correlates using a recent … panel data set for Serbia, this paper combines both of these issues. Estimation of gross transition probabilities reveals …
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Post-communist labor markets provide an interesting laboratory since unemployment rates grew from zero to double digits … determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech Republic using a method that decomposes unemployment rates into transition … (demographic, regional, cyclical) other than gender and marital status affect unemployment. We find that women?s lower probability …
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dataset, which links Swiss unemployed to their caseworkers, we find positive employment effects of about 4 percentage points … caseworker and unemployed, does not lead to detectable effects on employment. These results, obtained by statistical matching …
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unemployment rates. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-2003 and 2009-2010, we find that higher regional unemployment rates are … channel through which others' unemployment affects time allocation decisions of the unemployed. As higher regional … unemployment rates imply a lower availability of jobs for the unemployed, it decreases the expectations individuals have of finding …
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on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in the …
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