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Does Violence in Non-War Zones Impact Labor Market Outcomes
Ayesh, Abubakr - 2021
This paper analyzes a context where sustained violence happens in non-war zones. Specifically, this paper considers terrorist attacks in Pakistan and focuses on districts which were never an active war zone, but still suffered from intermittent terrorist attacks of varying intensity. We provide...
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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002 - November 1999 (revised: May 2002)
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313919
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Young FSU migrants in Germany : educational attainment and early labor market outcomes
Flake, Regina - 2013
This study analyzes the educational attainment and early labor market outcomes of young migrants from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) who arrived in Germany between 1989 and 1994. The results reveal that migrants have lower educational attainments than natives, and that within the group of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771160
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Are immigrants competing with natives in the Italian labour market? : the employment effect
Venturini, Alessandra; Villosio, Claudia - 2002
of the unemployment experience are taken into account: i) displacement risk, measured by the probability of moving from … employment into unemployment; ii) job-search effectiveness measured by the probability of moving from unemployment into … the effect is positive in the most recent periods. For native transition from employment to unemployment a complementary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410707
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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577317
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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011598931
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The share of foreigners in one's occupation and attitudes towards foreigners
Pecoraro, Marco; Ruedin, Didier - 2017
foreigners, and welcome their contribution to overcome labour shortages. Adding the occupational unemployment rate to the model …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011749353
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Essays on international trade and development
Heid, Benedikt - 2014
gravity models for developed countries to include unemployment (chapter 2) and for Latin American and Caribbean developing … migration and trade and their effects on unemployment (chapter 5), and the dynamics of democracy and income chapter 6). …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742960
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Do labour market conditions shape immigrant-native gaps in employment outcomes? : a comparison of 19 European countries
Markaki, Yvonni - 2014
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010439678
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Enterprise zones, poverty, and labor market outcomes : resolving conflicting evidence
Neumark, David; Young, Timothy - 2019
This paper revisits an important analysis of enterprise zones (EZs) by Ham, Swenson, Imrohoroğlu, and Song (2011), who report substantial poverty reductions from state and federal EZs, as well as improvements in other labor market outcomes. In our re-analysis, we find that a data error accounts...
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