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Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis
Chiswick, Barry R.; Lee, Yew Liang; Miller, Paul W. - 2002
tests the hypotheses using data on adult males from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Australia. The theoretical … includes data on pre-immigration occupation, the ?first? occupation in Australia (at 6 months) and the occupation after about 3 ….5 years in Australia. The hypotheses are supported by the empirical analysis. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262795
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Der Quadrilaterale Sicherheitsdialog (Quad) zwischen Australien, Indien, Japan und den USA: Mehr Symptom als Lösung des Problems wachsender Instabilität im Indo-Pazifik
Heiduk, Felix; Wirth, Christian - 2023
Zusammenarbeit der vier Partnerländer Australien, Indien, Japan und die USA bei der Bewältigung dringlicher Herausforderungen zu …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014431717
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The determination of wages of newly hired employees: survey evidence on internal versus external factors
Galuščák, Kamil; Keeney, Mary; Nicolitsas, Daphne; … - 2010
This paper uses information from a rich firm-level survey on wage and price-setting procedures, in around 15,000 firms in 15 European Union countries, to investigate the relative importance of internal versus external factors in the setting of wages of newly hired workers. The evidence suggests...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011605199
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Adverse workplace conditions, high-involvement work practices and labor turnover: evidence from Danish linked employer-employee data
Cottini, Elena; Kato, Takao; Westergård-Nielsen, Niels … - 2009
This paper contributes to the emerging strand of the empirical literature that takes advantage of new data on workplace-specific job attributes and voluntary employee turnover to shed fresh insights on the relationship between employee turnover, adverse workplace conditions and HRM environments....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277256
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Import protection, business cycles, and exchange rates: Evidence from the great recession
Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2011
exercise, we document how the model's estimates imply that a 9 - 20 percent appreciation of China's real exchange rate vis …-a-vis the US dollar during the sample period would allow for China's exporters to have received the average import protection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292150
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Choice of pension scheme and job mobility in Britain
Disney, Richard; Emmerson, Carl - 2002
This paper examines the choice of pension scheme and job mobility in Britain. Workers in Britain can choose to belong wholly to the social security (public pension) programme, or to a company-provided plan (occupational pension), or to purchase their own individual pension. We use household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293043
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Labour mobility - an adjustment mechanism in Euroland? Empirical evidence for Western Germany, France and Italy
Puhani, Patrick A. - 1999
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate whether labour mobility is likely to act as a sufficient adjustment mechanism in the face of asymmetric shocks in Euroland. To this end, we estimate the elasticity of migration with respect to changes in unemployment and income on the basis of regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297645
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Taxation and unemployment: an applied general equilibrium approach for Germany
Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Feil, Michael - 2002
This paper presents an applied general equilibrium model for Germany. The model integrates specific labour market institutions in an otherwise standard general equilibrium framework. There are sectoral wage negotiations for two skill types of workers between firms and trade unions. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298083
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Tax Progressivity and the Trade Union's Fallback-Option
Boeters, Stefan - 2002
When we analyse the labour market consequences of labour tax reforms in a model of firm-union wage bargaining, minor changes in the formulation of the union`s fallback option can have drastic effects. This paper compares two variants of the model in which either workers have no reemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298106
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Why Are East Germans Not More Mobile? Analyzing the Impact of Local Networks on Migration Intentions
Boenisch, Peter; Schneider, Lutz - 2010
Despite poor regional labour market conditions East Germans exhibit a rather limited willing-ness of leaving their home region. Applying an IV ordered probit approach and using the German Socio Economic Panel (SOEP), we test a local network explanation of lower spatial mobility. Firstly, we find...
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