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Do immigrant workers depress the wages of native workers? : short-term wage effects of immigrants are close to zero : and in the long term immigrants can boost productivity and wag...
Peri, Giovanni - 2014
Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …
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Low-wage employment : are low-paid jobs stepping stones to higher paid jobs, do they become persistent, or do they lead to recurring unemployment?
Schnabel, Claus - 2016
Low-wage employment has become an important feature of the labor market and a controversial topic for debate in many countries. How to interpret the prominence of lowpaid jobs and whether they are beneficial to workers or society is currently an open question. The answer depends on whether...
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Do start-ups provide employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers?
Fackler, Daniel; Fuchs, Michaela; Hölscher, Lisa; … - In: ILR review : a publication of the New York State School … 72 (2019) 5, pp. 1123-1148
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The labor market effects of a refugee wave : synthetic control method meets the Mariel Boatlift
Peri, Giovanni; Yasenov, Vasil - 2017
departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …
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Peers' composition effects in the short and in the long run : college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
In this paper we use a newly constructed dataset following 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to labor market and we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We...
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Does working at a start-up pay off?
Fackler, Daniel; Hölscher, Lisa; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2020
individuals over ten years, we find huge and long-lasting drawbacks from entering a start-up in terms of wages, yearly income, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012181493
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Does working at a start-up pay off?
Fackler, Daniel; Hölscher, Lisa; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2020
individuals over ten years, we find huge and long-lasting drawbacks from entering a start-up in terms of wages, yearly income, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012182728
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Does working at a start-up pay off?
Fackler, Daniel; Hölscher, Lisa; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2020
individuals over ten years, we find huge and long-lasting drawbacks from entering a start-up in terms of wages, yearly income, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171572
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The effects of high school peers' gender on college major, college performance and income
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2016
Using an originally constructed dataset that follows 30,000 Italian individuals from high school to the labor market, we analyze whether the gender composition of peers in high school affected their choice of college major, their academic performance and their labor market income. We exploit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515310
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Do startups provide employment opportunities for disadvantaged workers?
Fackler, Daniel; Fuchs, Michaela; Hölscher, Lisa; … - 2018
. However, an analysis of entry wages reveals that disadvantageous worker characteristics come along with higher wage penalties …
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