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Insurance versus savings for the poor: Why one should offer either both or none

Landmann, Andreas; Vollan, Björn; Frölich, Markus - 2012

This paper analyzes data from a novel field experiment designed to test the impact of two different insurance products … simulated by a lottery. Risk-sharing is possible in solidarity groups of three and insurance is introduced via less risky … insurance if shocks are observable. Depending on insurance design, there is also evidence for persistence of this effect even if …

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Unemployment and finance: how do financial and labour market factors interact?

Gatti, Donatella; Vaubourg, Anne-Gaël - 2009

Using data for 18 OECD countries over the period 1980-2004, we investigate how labour and financial factors interact to determine unemployment. We show that the impact of financial variables depends strongly on the labour market context. Increased market capitalization as well as decreased...

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The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - 2003

This paper investigates short and long-run effects of trade liberalization on employment and wages. Employment and wage equations are estimated using data (1971?96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that causality is unidirectional. Wages strongly causes...

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East-West Trade and Migration: The Austro-German Case

Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

Trade and migration have become more important in recent years for Austria and Germany. The transition in Central and Eastern Europe has played an important role in this development. The derived labor market consequences are not fully clear so far. This paper presents the results of econometric...

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Meta-analysis of empirical evidence on the labour market impacts of immigration

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2008

The increasing proportion of immigrants in the population of many countries has raised concerns about the 'absorption capacity' of the labour market, and fuelled extensive empirical research in countries that attract migrants. In previous papers we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical...

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A Theory of Social Forces and Immigrant Second Language Acquisition

DeVoretz, Don J.; Werner, Christiane - 2000

The preponderance of minimal second language acquisition by immigrants worldwide is striking. This paper proposes a theoretical model, which analyzes the underlying forces that contribute to this outcome of minimal secondary language acquisition by immigrants in such diverse immigrant-receiving...

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Do Labour Market Institutions Matter?Micro-Level Wage Effects of InternationalOutsourcing in Three European Countries

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger; Munch, Jakob Roland - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages in three European countrieswith markedly different labour market institutions: Germany, the UK and Denmark...

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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of SkilledWorkers: Labor Markets in the EU New Member States

Rutkowski, Jan - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent adramatic transformation. Notably, this transformation took place within just a few years. Untilthe mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment was high. But since thenlabor demand has picked up and...

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Der Arbeitsmarkt in Deutschland: ZwischenStrukturreformen und sozialpolitischem Reflex

Eichhorst, Werner - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Die Arbeitsmarktreformen der letzten Jahre haben die strukturellen Anpassungsproblemedes deutschen Beschäftigungsmodells zum Teil gelindert - allerdings sind noch längst nichtalle Schwierigkeiten überwunden...

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Regional Unemployment and Human Capital inTransition Economies

Jurajda, Stěpán; Terrell, Katherine D. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Differences in regional unemployment in post-communist economies are large andpersistent. We show that inherited variation in human-capital endowment across the regionsof four such economies explains the bulk of regional unemployment variation there and weexplore potential explanations for this...

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