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A Macroeconomic Experiment in Mass Immigration
Hercowitz, Zvi; Yashiv, Eran - 2002
This paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the native-born. The exogeneity and the size of this inflow make it a ?natural experiment? of macroeconomic proportions. An open-economy macroeconomic model is used to analyze this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262777
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Macroeconomic Policy Lessons of Labor Market Frictions
Yashiv, Eran - 2002
are that policy has effects on the stochastic behavior of key variables - measures that reduce unemployment also reduce … its persistence and increase the volatility of vacancies. Hiring subsidies and unemployment benefits have substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262801
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Evaluating the performance of the search and matching model
Yashiv, Eran - 2006
high volatility of most of the key variables, the negative co-variation of unemployment and vacancies, and the behavior of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267305