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Neighborhood Quality and Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Quasi-Random Neighborhood Assignment of Immigrants
Damm, Anna Piil - 2012
Using survey information about characteristics of personal contacts linked with administrative register information on … of lack of employed contacts. I investigate this hypothesis by exploiting a unique natural experiment that occurred … immigrants find jobs in part through their employed immigrant and co-ethnic contacts in the neighborhood of residence and that a …
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Survival, Growth, and Interfirm Collaboration of Start-Up Companies in High-Technology Industries: A Case Study of Upper Bavaria
Hampe, Johannes; Steininger, Martin - 2001
assistence which results predominantly from personal contacts. The personal networks which developed from the environment of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262552
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Price Equilibrium with Selling Constraints
Moraga-González, José L.; Watanabe, Makoto - 2023
This paper studies how selling constraints, which refer to the inability of firms to attend to all the buyers who want to inspect their products, affect the equilibrium price and social welfare. We show that the price that maximizes social welfare is greater than the marginal cost. This is...
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Getting the first job: Size and quality of ethnic enclaves for refugee labor market entry
Klaesson, Johan; Öner, Özge; Pennerstorfer, Dieter - 2019
This article analyses the relationship between the size and the quality of ethnic enclaves on immigrants' labor market integration. Using exogenously defined grid cells to delineate neighborhoods, we find robust empirical evidence that the employment rate of the respective immigrant group in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012140930
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Lowering Welfare Benefits: Intended and Unintended Consequences for Migrants and their Families
Andersen, Lars Højsgaard; Dustmann, Christian; … - 2019
Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform reduced benefits to refugee immigrants by around 50 percent for those granted residency after the reform date. The reform led to a sharp short run increase in labor earnings and employment, but it also induced a strong female labor force withdrawal, and a large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532885
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Refugee Benefit Cuts
Dustmann, Christian; Landerso, Rasmus; Andersen, Lars … - 2023
This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002, it enables us to study not only the reform's immediate effects, but also its longer-term consequences, and its repeal a decade later. The reform-induced large transfer cuts led to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532908
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Refugee Benefit Cuts
Dustmann, Christian; Landersø, Rasmus; Andersen, Lars … - 2023
This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002, it enables us to study not only the reform's immediate effects, but also its longer-term consequences, and its repeal a decade later. The reform-induced large transfer cuts led to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290296
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Refugee Benefit Cuts
Dustmann, Christian; Landerso, Rasmus; Andersen, Lars … - 2023
This paper analyzes the effects of Denmark's Start Aid welfare reform that targets refugees. Implemented in 2002, it enables us to study not only the reform's immediate effects, but also its longerterm consequences, and its repeal a decade later. The reform-induced large transfer cuts led to an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014296821
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Welfare Reform and Migrant's Long-Term Labor Market Integration
Kunz, Johannes S.; Zhu, Anna - 2023
We study the effect of reducing welfare assistance on migrants# long-term integration in Australia. The policy postponed a migrant's eligibility for benefits during their first two years in the country. It mainly affected mothers and was announced after their arrival. Using a regression...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377188
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Getting the first job: Size and quality of ethnic enclaves for refugee labor market entry
Klaesson, Johan; Öner, Özge; Pennerstorfer, Dieter - 2018
This article analyses the relationship between the size and the quality of ethnic enclaves on immigrants' labour market integration. Using exogenously defined grid cells to delineate neighbourhoods we find robust empirical evidence that the employment rate of the respective immigrant group in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145481