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Estimating the wage premia of refugee immigrants : lessons from Sweden
Baum, Christopher F.; Lööf, Hans; Stephan, Andreas; … - 2024
This paper examines the wage earnings of fully-employed previous refugee immigrants in Sweden. Using administrative employer-employee data from 1990 onwards, about 100,000 refugee immigrants who arrived between 1980 and 1996 and were granted asylum, are compared to a matched sample of...
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Merit Pay and Pain : Linking Congressional Pay to Performance
McPike, Jonathan David - 2011
Despite the Founding Fathers' careful planning, the reason for the public's lack of confidence in Congress is that elections, like the institutional checks and balances of federalism and separation of powers, are necessary but not sufficient to ensure that Congress acts in the best interests of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132927
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The Impact of Money in Politics on Labor and Capital : Evidence from Citizens United v. FEC
Akey, Pat; Babina, Tania; Buchak, Greg; Tenekedjieva, … - 2022
The perceived increase in corporate political influence has raised concerns that corporations advance policies that benefit capital and harm labor. We examine whether money in politics harms labor using the surprise Supreme Court ruling Citizens United v. FEC (2010), which rendered bans on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013403790
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The Impact of Money in Politics on Labor and Capital : Evidence from Citizens United v. FEC
Akey, Pat; Babina, Tania; Buchak, Greg; Tenekedjieva, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We examine whether corporate money in politics benefits or hurts labor using the 2010 Supreme Court ruling Citizens United, which rendered bans on political election spending unconstitutional. In difference-in-difference analyses, affected states experience increases in both capital and labor...
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Individual pay and outside options : evidence from the Polish labour force survey
Duffy, Fiona; Walsh, Patrick Paul - 2001
unemployment (job shortages) and + 0.1 for local job reallocation (restructuring). Variations in local labour market conditions …
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The impact of amnesty on labor market outcomes : a panel study using the legalized population survey
Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina; Bansak, Cynthia - 2011
, employment fell and unemployment rose for newly legalized men relative to the comparison group of already legal U.S. residents …
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The Impact of Amnesty on Labor Market Outcomes : A Panel Study Using the Legalized Population Survey
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2014
, employment fell and unemployment rose for newly legalized men relative to the comparison group of already legal U.S. residents …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068380
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Reservation Wages and Unemployment Insurance
Shimer, Robert - 2006
welfare. This insight leads to a novel test for the optimality of unemployment insurance based on the responsiveness of … reservation wages to unemployment benefits. Some existing estimates imply significant gains to raising the current level of … unemployment insurance but highlight the need for more research on the determinants of reservation wages. Our approach is intuitive …
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What Determines the Reservation Wages of Unemployed Workers? New Evidence from German Micro Data
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2006
macroeconomic factors - including the unemployment rate and generosity of the unemployment compensation system - as well as … individual-specific determinants, such as human capital proxies and length of unemployment spell. The longitudinal dataset … for workers who move from unemployment to employment. The findings shed light on the disincentive effects of the German …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783021
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Beyond lost earnings : the long-term impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior
Duan, Yige; Jost, Oskar; Jost, Ramona - 2022
We study the long-term impact of job displacement on workers' commuting behavior. Our measures of commuting exploit geo-coordinates of workers' places of residence and places of work, from which we calculate the door-to-door commuting distance and commuting time. Using German employee-employer...
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