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the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
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what European policy makers can learn from this experience. Impact of Immigration on natives? employment and earnings, as …
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Die Beschäftigung älterer Arbeitnehmer in Deutschland hat in den letzten Jahren merklich zugenommen. Die Studie untersucht diese jüngste Verbesserung der Arbeitsmarktsituation Älterer und analysiert den Beitrag, den die arbeitsmarkt- und sozialpolitischen Reformen der letzten Jahre dabei...
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This paper attempts to uncover the effects of a welfare-to-work programme that acts as a wage subsidy on wage growth by exploiting an expansion to this welfare programme in the UK. The conventional wisdom is that such programmes trap recipients into low wage, low quality work – this comes from...
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Labor supply theory predicts systematic heterogeneity in the impact of recent welfare reforms on earnings, transfers, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using random-assignment data from Connecticut's Jobs First...
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meaningful employment, are becoming increasingly popular in developing countries. The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act …
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We assess the effectiveness of Job Corps (JC), the largest job training program targeting disadvantaged youth in the United States, by constructing nonparametric bounds for the average and quantile treatment effects of the program on wages. Our preferred estimates point toward convincing...
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benefits substantially and simultaneously improved employment services offered to, and monitoring of, the recipients. We find … employment and to other destinations – at various durations of unemployment spells and for many categories of unemployed workers …
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those with short job tenure. Roughly half of those displaced find re-employment within two months while the other half … lingers on in the state of non-employment. There is less evidence however of a wage penalty to job loss, unlike in some … in Estonia. The main cost of displacement is then the income loss due to non-employment, which is severe for a minority …
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level and employment is determined by labor demand. To compare models, we estimate an encompassing equation for net job …
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