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Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries
Docquier, Frédéric - 2018
highly skilled across age groups. Immigration plays a relatively minor role, except in a handful of open countries, like …
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Immigrant Versus Natives? Displacement and Job Creation
Ozden, Caglar - 2018
The impact of immigration on native workers is driven by two countervailing forces: the degree of substitutability … suited for understanding the impact of low-skilled immigration. The instrumental variable estimates imply that the elasticity … positive effect on native wages (0.14 percent). The impact of immigration is highly heterogeneous for natives with different …
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The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration
Docquier, Frédéric - 2017
, especially when it comes to the debate on the effects of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in high …-2000, the results show the following: First, immigration had zero to small positive long-run effect on the average wages of …-run effect ranging from zero for the US to -0.8 percent in the UK. Third, over the period 1990-2000, immigration generally …
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The Effect of Immigration on Natives' School 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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India's Internal Labor Migration Paradox : The Statistical and the Real
Nayyar, Gaurav - 2018
Internal labor migration rates in India have been largely static and low in recent times compared with those in other countries. This is a cause for concern because internal migration for economic reasons can promote the agglomeration of economic activity in more productive locations and...
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The Role of Social Ties in Factor Allocation
Beck, Ulrik - 2018
This paper investigates whether social structure helps or hinders factor allocation using unusually rich data from The Gambia. Evidence indicates that land available for cultivation is allocated unequally across households; and that factor transfers are more common between neighbors, co-ethnics,...
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Once NEET, Always NEET? A Synthetic Panel Approach to Analyze the Moroccan Labor Market
Alfani, Federica - 2020
In many regions of the world, the persistent, and growing, proportion of young people who are currently not in employment, education, or training is of global concern. This is no less true of Morocco: about 30 percent of the Moroccan population between ages 15 and 24 are currently not in...
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Free Primary Education, Fertility, and Women's Access to the Labor Market : Evidence from Ethiopia
Chicoine, Luke - 2020
This article investigates the causal relationship between women's schooling and fertility by exploiting variation generated by the removal of school fees in Ethiopia. The increase in schooling caused by the reform is identified using both geographic variation in the intensity of its impact and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844584
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Regional Labor Market Developments in Transition
Huber, Peter - 2006
The author analyzes regional labor market disparities in transition by presenting some data and summarizing existing literature. He finds that large and persistent regional labor market disparities developed in virtually all transition countries and that there is some evidence of polarization....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779242
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Job Fairs : Matching Firms and Workers in a Field Experiment in Ethiopia
Abebe, Girum Tefera - 2017
Do matching frictions affect youth employment in developing countries? This paper studies a randomized controlled trial of job fairs in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The job fairs match firms with a representative sample of young, educated job-seekers. The meetings at the fairs create very few jobs:...
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