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employment is presented. We provide some theoretical arguments which cast doubt on the standard thesis that unemployment … that a persistent lack of demand is responsible for the major part of the German unemployment problem. …
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unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on …This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an …
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unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on …This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an …
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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the …-born workers? assessment of the number of immigrants in the local market. By doing so, the association between unemployment of … immigrants and unemployment among native-born workers. …
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compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply …
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This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ … impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …
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immigrants arriving in Australia at the end of the 1990s. Moreover, approximately half of the fall in men?s unemployment rates … achieving national objectives regarding immigration. These changes stem primarily from the belief that skill-based immigrants do … also stems from increases in productive skills, though the substantial decline in women?s unemployment rates are driven …
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Using detailed micro data on earnings and employment, I analyze the effects of immigration on the wage distribution of … native male workers in Austria. I find that immigration has heterogeneous effects on wages, differing by type of work as well … effects occur at most percentiles. The estimated effects of immigration are relatively small in size and not significant for …
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we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical literature by means of meta-analyses of the impact of immigration on … market outcomes: wages, employment, unemployment and labour force participation. We compare 45 primary studies published …
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