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world of work are the subject of much debate. Although data are scarce, there is a general consensus that migrants are … overrepresented in this type of work. Platforms may well provide migrants with work opportunities, especially shortly after arrival … which platforms rely on migrants and create the conditions for exploitation compared to other workers is an important …
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Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic enclaves within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in … distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way that may be considered exogenous. This policy initiative provides a unique …
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of immigrants. We use longitudinal data on immigration to Sweden 1970-1990 to examine the extent and pattern of immigrant … who leave. This creates the impression that immigrants' well-being relative to natives improves with time in Sweden … emigration and its consequences for measures of assimilation. Large fractions of the immigrants leave the host country shortly …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous … low-skilled workers lose from unskilled immigration even if the indigenous lowskilled workers do not finance … redistribution, do not compete with immigrants in the labor market, and do not compete with immigrants for publicly financed income …
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lower rates of involvement in criminal activity than natives. The earliest studies of immigration and crime conducted at the …, immigrants were less likely than natives to be committed to state and federal prisons at all ages 20 and older. But this …Research on crime in the late 20th century has consistently shown, that despite the public rhetoric, immigrants have …
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Recent immigrants in Switzerland are overrepresented at the top of the wage distribution in high and at the bottom in … low skill occupations. Basic economic theory thus suggests that immigration has led to a compression of the wage …
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We analyse the consequences of starting a wage subsidised job, marginal employment, for unemployed workers. Marginal employment is a type of wage subsidy paid to unemployed workers and they do not lose their unemployment benefits if the wage is below a certain threshold. We ask if the unemployed...
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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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The modernisation of Swedish households during the twentieth century prompted a considerable productivity growth in household production, which reduced the time input for a fixed volume of routine household work by about 35 per cent 1920-1990. Much of that time was gradually transferred to the...
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