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This paper explores the effects of high and low skilled immigration to a hostcountry with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurancescheme. It is shown that the consequences for the labor market and the welfareof natives depend crucially on the host country's production structure....
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Germany exhibits a strong reduction in domestic manufacturing production depth (bazaareffect). I argue that this reflects an unbundling of comparative advantage. Using a modelwhere Ricardian plus Heckscher-Ohlin-type comparative advantage relates to fragments ofproduction, I compare a trading...
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While the allocative efficiency of mobility is typically considered to be positive but small in the long run, the induced changes in equality may be considerable in size. In practice, however, migrants typically improve their income position in comparison to those at home, stimulate the economic...
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Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on … wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously in a general equilibrium framework. For the empirical analysis we … vocational degree. The wage and employment effects of migration are moderate... …
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This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration byeducational attainment. We …
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This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect theprobability of high school graduation …
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This paper investigates the role that discrimination plays in the educational marginalizationof foreign youth commonly observed in European countries with a long guestworkertradition. Economic theory offers two basic explanations for discrimination ofthis form: taste-based discrimination arising...
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In the past decade, Switzerland has experienced a large increase in the number ofindividuals that went into early retirement. This paper takes a look at the determinants of earlyretirement using data from the 2002 Swiss Labor Force Survey that contains an interestingmodule on this topic...
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We study the effects of demographic shocks and changes in the pension system on themacroeconomic performance of an advanced small open economy. An overlappinggenerationsmodel is constructed which includes a realistic description of the mortalityprocess. Individual agents choose their optimal...
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Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distortingproduction choices. Firms facing (non-Coasean) worker dismissal costs will curtail hiringbelow efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affectproductivity. These theoretical...
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