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This paper is the first to analyze the impact of family background on permanent earnings based on sibling correlations in Germany and to provide a cross-country comparison of Germany, Denmark, and USA. The main findings are that family and community background has a stronger influence on...
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The correlation in economic status among siblings is a useful "omnibus measure" of the overall impact of family and community factors on adult economic status. In this study we compare brother correlations in long-run (permanent) earnings between the United States, on one hand, and the Nordic...
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Analysing young people's educational choices, we derive and test implications of a relative risk aversion hypothesis: that educational choices are made so as to minimize the risk of ending up with a lower level of education than one's parents. These implications are in general different from...
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This paper examines the effect of immigration on workplace safety, an understudied outcome in the literature. We use a … economic crisis (2010–2015) had no impact on natives’ workplace safety. The scarcity of jobs during that period may have … prevented shifts between occupations. Finally, we find no effects of immigration on the workplace safety of immigrants. These …
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nature of this immigration, but have not analysed the impacts on the economy. This paper presents a theoretical and empirical … analysis of the impact of illegal immigration on the economy of the small open type, like that of Greece. The theoretical … analysis uses a small stylised model to show that there is no unequivocal case for illegal immigration to lead to declines in …
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workers and 43% of the gap for women. An analysis of undocumented immigrants legalized after the 1986 U.S. immigration policy …
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This paper analyzes the welfare effects of immigration and its subsequent effect on ethnic diversity in a model … individuals and endogenous levels of immigration and assimilation. In the model, an increase in ethnic diversity reduces the … spillovers effect for the majority. Nonetheless, immigration can be welfare improving for the majority ethnic group even if it …
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This paper studies the effect of increased immigration in Austria on the unemployment risk of young natives. Austria …
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with natives' wage/salary earnings at about age 30 and natives' self-employed earnings at about age 40. Including the self …
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We show that "convergence" to mean earnings in intergenerational earnings mobility models will be a function not only of the single-generation correlation of earnings, but also of the properties of the unobserved stochastic distribution of shocks to earnings.
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