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What happens to the careers of European workers when immigrants "take their jobs"?
Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - 2014
effect of the inflows of immigrants on their career, employment and wages. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by … associated with higher skills and status when a larger number of immigrants enter their labor market. As a consequence of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357967
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Immigration and careers of European workers : effects and the role of policies
Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - 2014
also use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by nationality across European labor markets to construct a version of the … enclave-based instrument to proxy for the flow of immigrants, that is exogenous to local demand shocks. We find that native … Europeans are more likely to upgrade to more skilled and better paid occupations, when a larger number of immigrants enter their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010373828
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Institutional features of wage bargaining in 23 European countries, the US and Japan
Du Caju, Philip; Gautier, Erwan; Momferatou, Daphne; … - 2008
This paper presents information on wage bargaining institutions, collected using a standardised questionnaire. Our data provide information from 1995 and 2006, for four sectors of activity and the aggregate economy, considering 23 European countries, plus the US and Japan. Main findings include...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003825968
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Price, wage and employment response to shocks : evidence from the WDN survey
Bertola, Giuseppe; Dabusinskas, Aurelijus; Hoeberichts, … - 2010
This paper analyses information from survey data collected in the framework of the Eurosystem's Wage Dynamics Network (WDN) on patterns of firm-level adjustment to shocks. We document that the relative intensity and the character of price vs. cost and wage vs. employment adjustments in response...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971260
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How flexible are real wages in EU countries? : a panel investigation
Heinz, Frigyes Ferdinand; Rusinova, Desislava - 2011
In this paper we estimate the degree of real wage flexibility in 19 EU countries in a wage Phillips curve panel framework. We find evidence for a reaction of wage growth to unemployment and productivity growth. However, due to unemployment persistence, over time the real wage response weakens...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238022
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The right amount of trust
Butler, Jeffrey; Giuliano, Paola; Guiso, Luigi - 2010
We investigate the relationship between individual trust and individual economic performance. We find that individual income is hump-shaped in a measure of intensity of trust beliefs. Heterogeneity of trust beliefs in the population, coupled with the tendency of individuals to extrapolate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008729239
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Cyclical dimensions of labour mobility after EU enlargement
Ahearnea, Alan; Brücker, Herbert; Darvasa, Zsolt; … - 2009
This paper explores the influence of the economic cycle on labour mobility within the EU, focusing on the likely impact of the present economic crisis. To do so, we use an econometrically calibrated simulation and a case study of Ireland. We find that, in the short run, the crisis is likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003874247
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Emigration and wages : the EU enlargement experiment
Elsner, Benjamin - 2011
This paper studies the impact of a large emigration wave on real wages in the source country. Following EU enlargement in 2004, a large share of the workforce of the Central and Eastern Europe emigrated to Western Europe. Using data from Lithuania for the calibration of a factor demand model I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009376066
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Migration from Africa, the Middle East and European neighbouring countries to the EU : an augmented gravity modelling approach
Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021
The South-North migration corridor, i.e. migration flows to the EU from Africa, the Middle East and EU neighbouring countries in the East, have overtaken the East-West migration corridor, i.e. migration flows from Central and East European countries to the EU15 and the European Free Trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544891
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Potential mobility from Africa, Middle East and EU neighbouring countries to Europe
Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael; Grieveson, Richard - 2021
Migration from Africa and the Middle East to the EU has intensified over the last two decades. Relative differences between developed EU and less developed African and Middle East countries have not declined that much and continue to drive mobility. Also, demographic trends show a strong...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012544920