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First fired, first hired? Business cycles and immigrant labor market transitions

Xu, Huanan - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 19, pp. 1-36

monthly transitions among employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. Immigrants are found to be first fired and first … hired over the business cycle, and the aggregate unemployment gap is caused by immigrants' higher rates in the unemployment …

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Wealth Inequality on the Rise in Germany

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 10, pp. 62-73

Individual net wealth in Germany totaled an average of around 88,000 Euros at the beginning of 2007 which was about 10 percent higher than in 2002. Decisive for this development was an increase in monetary wealth as well as wealth from private insurance. In connection with the overall quite...

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Old-Age Pension Entitlements Mitigate Inequality: But Concentration of Wealth Remains High

Frick, Joachim R.; Grabka, Markus M. - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 8, pp. 55-64

Entitlements from old-age pension schemes - statutory, company, and private - represent a considerable source of wealth. For data-related reasons, analyses of the personal wealth distribution have so far failed to take this into account, however. According to recent calculations based on the...

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Income Polarisation in Germany Is Rising

Goebel, Jan; Gornig, Martin; Häußermann, Hartmut - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 26, pp. 199-206

Income disparities between poorer and richer households in Germany have been widening since reunification. Although this income polarisation is reduced during economically favourable periods by strong growth in employment, once the good times are over, it rises all the faster. The longer-term...

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Considering the benefits of hosting refugees: Evidence of refugee camps influencing local labour market activity and economic welfare in Rwanda

Loschmann, Craig; Bilgili, Özge; Siegel, Melissa - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 9 (2019) 5, pp. 1-23

This paper examines the influence of Congolese refugees on host communities in Rwanda, with a focus on labour market activity and economic welfare. The analysis takes advantage of newly collected survey data from three refugee camps and their surrounding areas to compare individuals and...

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Migration, cultural identity and diasporas: An identity economics approach

Prinz, Aloys; Siegel, Melissa - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 10 (2019) 1, pp. 1-20

Besides effects on economic well-being, migration of people with distant cultural backgrounds may also have large effects on people's cultural identity. In this paper, the identity economics of Akerlof and Kranton (2000) is applied to migration. Accordingly, it is assumed that the utility of...

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Five Years after the Reform of the Social and Unemployment Benefits in Germany

Brenke, Karl - In: Weekly Report 6 (2010) 12, pp. 86-96

only a weak sign for success: Firstly, unemployment on the whole decreased more than in previous economic recoveries, and … a success if unemployment rates drastically went down also for social benefits recipients. There were no significant …

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Comparing retrospective and panel data collection methods to assess labor market dynamics

Assaad, Ragui; Krafft, Caroline; Yassin, Shaimaa; … - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 17, pp. 1-34

whether retrospective data can provide accurate trends of labor market aggregates, such as unemployment rates. We find that it …

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Measuring links between labor monopsony and the gender pay gap in Brazil

Vick, Brandon - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 10, pp. 1-28

This paper focuses on gender differences in job mobility and earnings for workers in Brazil. Monopsony theory suggests a link between the wage elasticity of labor supply and wage penalties. Should one group of workers be less elastic in their supply choices, that group is predicted to earn less...

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A Summer Break for the Unemployment Rate: Google-Assisted Forecasting Signals Easing

Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: Weekly Report 5 (2009) 25, pp. 176-181

, many observers are anticipating a dramatic rise in unemployment in the fall, with the total number of unemployed rapidly … unemployment rate will remain relatively stable in August and through the end of September, when elections for the German Bundestag … will be held. The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate is actually falling. Given this fact, the danger that the total …

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