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immigrants' labour force participation rate and employment probability. For recent immigrants who arrived in Canada within the … positively related to their employment probability in all censuses. However, living in an enclave has no significant effect on …
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employment among the least-skilled, especially when the laws cover business assistance recipients or are accompanied by similar …
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employment, including hours, prices, turnover, training, performance standards, and non-labor costs. Exploiting variation in the … cost impact of the MW across restaurants, we find no significant effect of the MW increases on employment or hours over the …
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laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of …
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This paper explores the identity formation of a cohort of students with immigrant backgrounds in Sweden and the consequences of identity for subsequent labor market outcomes. Unique for this study is that identity is defined according to a two-dimensional acculturation framework based on both...
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the core family structure and contacts with parents and children away (in Britain) increases the probability of self-employment … employment. Finally, disaggregating different types of social networks along their compositional characteristics, we find that …-ethnic social networks facilitates paid employment among minority individuals. These findings hint at a positive role of social …
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This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...
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This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on overlapped household production, work and leisure activities employing the 2000-2001 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, unconditionally, white females manage to stretch their time the most by an additional 233 minutes per day and...
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meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act …
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We estimate models of earnings and employment outcomes for a sample of white and non-white male immigrants drawn from …
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