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For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in the social sciences more broadly. This...
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employment into unemployment; ii) job-search effectiveness measured by the probability of moving from unemployment into … the effect is positive in the most recent periods. For native transition from employment to unemployment a complementary … result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects …
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Using two Dutch labour force surveys, employment assimilation of immigrants is examined. We observe marked differences … compared to other non-western immigrants but they still suffer from high unemployment. The study also documents that the …
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flexible multi-state Mixed Proportional Hazard specifications for transition rates between employment, unemployment, and …' transition rates from unemployment to employment increase. Longer periods of non-employment generally decrease future transition … welfare/non-participation. Our main finding is that after longer periods of employment with high income, individuals …
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bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are …
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the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a … stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …
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selection policy can facilitate employment outcomes for new arrivals over the medium run. The results indicate that the … immigrants arriving in Australia at the end of the 1990s. Moreover, approximately half of the fall in men?s unemployment rates … also stems from increases in productive skills, though the substantial decline in women?s unemployment rates are driven …
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