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Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - 2002

costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also …

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A Note on the Redistributive Effect of Immigration

Euwals, Rob; Roodenburg, Hans - 2003

In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated level is called the ?immigration surplus?, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the earnings of native owners of production factors by...

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Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Zoega, Gylfi - 2003

coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …

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Class Ridden or Meritocratic? An Economic Analysis of Recent Changes in Britain

Galindo-Rueda, Fernando; Vignoles, Anna - 2003

In a meritocratic society an individual's economic success is determined by their ability, not by their parents' socio-economic status. We assess whether meritocracy has increased in both the British education system and labour market. The richness of our longitudinal data enables us to look at...

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Labour as a Buffer: Do Temporary Workers Suffer?

Francesconi, Marco; Booth, Alison L.; Frank, Jeff - 2003

In this paper, we investigate whether or not there is an equal opportunities dimension to regulating equal pay and conditions for temporary work. We develop a ?buffer stock? model of temporary work that suggests a number of reasons why ethnic minorities and women may be more likely to be on...

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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt: Eine oekonomische Perspektive

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …

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The Effect of Immigration on Wages in Three European Countries

Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - 2002

We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives? wages from two to … small effects on natives? wages and no dominant robust patterns of substitution and complementarity. Effects on wages of …

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The Impact of Labor Markets on Emergence and Persistence of Regional Asymmetries

Picard, Pierre M.; Toulemonde, Eric - 2001

This paper investigates the impact of labor markets and economies of agglomeration on firms location. We show that the existence of a lower bound on wage (e.g. a minimum wage or a reservation wage) introduces asymmetric location of firms. Moreover, changes in that lower bound or in global...

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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ?Solovian zone? where wages increase with … bliss point can only be made better-off by an increase in diversity. If wages are set by monopoly unions rather than set … employment in the material goods sector. International trade may reduce wages in poor countries and increase them in rich …

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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies

Pflüger, Michael - 2003

core scope to set higher wages and to choose more generous welfare policies than their counterparts in the periphery …

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