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We compare male and female upward labor income mobility in Germany and the United States using the GSOEP-PSID Cross …
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Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...
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Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence … for double discrimination against female immigrants. Institutional factors such as firm-level collective bargaining and …This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …
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discriminate against them. The wage discrimination in high-diversity firms could be alleviated through a stronger presence of …
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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …
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Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839263
This paper examines whether a greater concentration of foreigners increases the likelihood of unemployment in local …
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We examine the upward labor income mobility of men and women in Germany using the GSOEP Cross National Equivalent File …. Women have greater overall income mobility. However, utilizing a measure of upward income mobility and calculating the … posterior probability that men?s upward income mobility is greater than women?s, we find that men have overall greater upward …
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Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that...
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sampled in Eurobarometer surveys in 1988 and 1997. Europeans who compete with immigrants in the labor market have more … negative attitudes towards foreigners. In addition, an increased concentration of immigrants in local neighborhoods increases …
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