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native male workers in Austria. I find that immigration has heterogeneous effects on wages, differing by type of work as well … most workers. Overall it seems that most of potentially adverse effects of immigration on natives' wages are offset by …Using detailed micro data on earnings and employment, I analyze the effects of immigration on the wage distribution of …
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across-the-border work is likely to be more common. There is no robust evidence on an impact on employment or wages. At least …
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We unify two approaches towards identifying native welfare effects of immigration, one emphasizing the immigration … decompose the native welfare effect of immigration into the standard complementarity effect, augmented by a Stolper … native welfare effects of various immigration scenarios. A calibration-based simulation reveals that the size of the inflow …
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A series of recent influential papers has emphasized that in order to identify the wage effects of immigration one …. Hence if we look at the employment (rather than wage) response to immigration by state, we can still estimate the … characteristics of Mexican migrants to the US to predict immigration by skill level in California. Looking at immigraton between 1960 …
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, their recent reforms and - where already possible - effects of these reforms. Overall, Germany seems to be on the right …
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Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …
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Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while...
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Labor supply theory predicts systematic heterogeneity in the impact of recent welfare reforms on earnings, transfers, and income. Yet most welfare reform research focuses on mean impacts. We investigate the importance of heterogeneity using random-assignment data from Connecticut's Jobs First...
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This paper looks at welfare reforms in Italy and their effects on labour supply. I focus on social security reforms, which have taken place in the 1990s and on labour market reforms. Old age social security expenditure in Italy is high (14% of GDP) and the system has been very generous on early...
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Comparing Sweden to other EU countries, labour force participation rates of older individuals and females are high. These facts are consistent with the idea that institutional design matters: access to child care, paid parental leave, and a tax system with individual rather than household income...
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