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skills during the experience of unemployment. Within a search and matching model, we show that all natives and immigrants are …We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing … affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spillovers, inducing employment increases in the other …
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skills during an unemployment experience. Within a search and matching framework, we show that both natives and immigrants …We examine the impact of discrimination on labour market performance when workers are subject to a risk of losing … are affected by discrimination. Discrimination in one sector has positive spill-overs, inducing employment to increase in …
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We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …
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less-skilled domestic workers when a TFW program of this kind is in place. The model also implies higher unemployment rates …
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less-skilled domestic workers when a TFW program of this kind is in place. The model also implies higher unemployment rates …
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their labour market outcomes and their quality of life. We interpret the negative effect on wages as evidence of labour … market discrimination. We estimate the welfare effects of negative attitudes, through their wage and local amenities, for …
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regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … unemployment and underemployment. A higher union density appears to suppress wage differences across some immigrant groups, rather …
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propose a search model with transferable utility in which ex-ante heterogeneous men and women simultaneously search for … partners in the marriage market and switch between employment and unemployment in the labor market. In the marriage market … labor market divorces triggered by unemployment has decreased significantly. …
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In Germany, immigrant unemployment is not only higher than native unemployment; italso reacts more to changes in the … situation on the labor market. Decomposing the gapbetween native and immigrant unemployment into a baseline and a labor …-marketsituation component, I find that the unemployment rate of immigrants would lie at 5.6 percentagepoints for zero native unemployment (the …
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This paper investigates the roots of potential labour-market discrimination underlying the negative correlation between … obesity and hourly wages. Using a panel dataset of white individuals drawn from the U.S. 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of … Youth (NLSY97), we test whether residual wage gaps could be attributed to prejudice (taste-based discrimination) and …
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