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Do immigrants push natives towards safer jobs? : exposure to COVID-19 in the European Union
Bossavie, Laurent; Garrote Sanchez, Daniel; Makovec, Mattia - 2020
This paper assesses the impact of immigration to Western Europe on the exposure of native-born workers to economic and …, are more exposed to the negative income shocks relative to the natives. The paper then examines whether immigration has an … relative to men. The paper does not find any significant effect of immigration on wages and employment, which indicates that …
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Ex-ante evaluation of the impact of increases in minimum wages on labor market outcomes in Kosovo
Robayo-Abril, Monica; Terskaya, Anastasia; Brodmann, … - 2020
This paper uses microsimulation techniques to quantify the potential ex-ante impacts of several minimum wage increases on labor market outcomes in Kosovo. The results show that the overall impacts of a minimum wage increase in the baseline scenario are likely to be modest, although the impacts...
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Busting the myth : the impact of increasing the minimum wage : the experience of Romania
Heemskerk, Frank; Voinea, Liviu; Cojocaru, Alexandra - 2018
This paper discusses the impact of a gradual, pre-announced significant increase of the minimum wage during 2013-16 in Romania. The main finding is that the positive effects prevail when the starting level of increase in the minimum wage is very low and the economy is in a negative output gap....
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The early labor market impacts of COVID-19 in developing countries : evidence from high-frequency phone surveys
Khamis, Melanie; Prinz, Daniel; Newhouse, David Locke; … - 2021
The economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has sharply reduced mobility and economic activity, disrupting the lives of people around the globe. This paper presents estimates on the early impact of the crisis on labor markets in 39 countries based on high-frequency phone survey data...
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The wage effects of immigration and emigration
Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar; Peri, Giovanni - 2011
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The effect of immigrant concentration at school on natives’ achievement : does length of stay in the host country matter?
Bossavie, Laurent - 2018
Using a rich data set of primary school students, this paper estimates the effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. In contrast with previous contributions, it exploits rare information on age-at-migration to estimate separate spillover effects...
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Brexit : trade governance and legal implications for third countries
Molinuevo, Martín - 2017
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Deep integration and UK-EU trade relations
Mulabdic, Alen; Osnago, Alberto; Ruta, Michele - 2017
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Fewer jobs or smaller paychecks? : aggregate crisis impacts in selected middle-income countries
Khanna, Gaurav; Newhouse, David Locke; Paci, Pierella - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419646
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Reacting quickly and protecting jobs : the short-term impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown on the Greek labor market
Betcherman, Gordon; Giannakopoulos, Nicholas; Laliotis, … - 2020
This paper uses administrative, survey, and online vacancy data to analyze the short-term labor market impacts of the COVID-19 lockdown in Greece. The analysis finds that flows into unemployment have not increased; instead, separations were lower than would have been expected given trends in...
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