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This paper analyzes wage differences between natives and immigrants in Austria. First, we show that for both groups … with respect to literacy can explain more than three log points of the total wage gap of 9.7 log points between natives and … the wage difference between immigrants and natives in Austria can be to a large extent explained. Furthermore, we account …
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This paper pursues a scenario analysis to shed light on past and potential future labour supply and labour demand dynamics of different skill groups in the six Western Balkan countries (WB6). It differentiates between four educational levels (low, medium-general, medium-VET, and high) and looks...
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transmission, rather than on localized peer effects of the ethnic enclaves. The empirical estimation provides support to this …
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In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the...
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Commuting shapes countless everyday-lives around the world, with dynamics varying from city to regional and cross regional level. Taking as reference the free-movement EU-28 area (plus Switzerland and Norway), the analysis considers a total sample of 195 NUTS2 regions over the decade 2007-2017...
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This paper is concerned with a comparison of immigrants and Swiss citizens with respect to level of education, labor …
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How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it … possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation … of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector version of the Grossman and Rossi-Hansberg (2008) model with a …
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