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Hoffman Plastics as Labor Law – Equality at Last for Immigrant Workers?
Dannin, Ellen - 2010
Hoffman Plastics, the poster child of immigration gone wrong, is popularly viewed as a case that imposed penalties unique to immigrant workers. The Supreme Court decision in Hoffman Plastics can relieve an employer that illegally fires an undocumented worker from owing back pay for violations of...
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Die Arbeitserlaubnis als Instrument der Arbeitsmarktpolitik zur Steuerung internationaler Zuwanderung auf den Arbeitsmarkt
Velling, Johannes - 1995
privilege). In this paper we analyse the effects of international migration on local unemployment and the role of native … effect of the labour market entrance of immigrants with work permits on local unemployment. On the contrary, almost all other … kind of immigration led to increased unemployment. Thereof, the immigration of German workers had the strongest effects in …
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Misclassification : Workers in the Borderland
Bensman, David - 2015
Today, nearly one-third of Americans in the labor force are in non-standard employment. The rise of non-standard employment, beginning in the mid-1970s, has occurred at the same time as the precarity of work has increased, and the number of bad jobs has grown as well. Independent contracting is...
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Lawless : A Policy Perspective on Labour Laws and Migrant Workers Displaced by COVID-19
Singhi, Shruti; Tagat, Anirudh - 2020
Many of India’s 19mn migrant workers have been displaced as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdown. Save for a select few that received assistance from their employers and local governments, many migrants were left to make their own arrangements to return home. This paper...
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Migrant Rights at Work : Law's Precariousness at the Intersection of Immigration and Labour
Berg, Laurie - 2015
Public debates about the terms of membership and inclusion have intensified as developed economies increasingly rely on temporary migrant labour. While most agree that temporary migrant workers are entitled to the general protection of employment laws, temporary migrants have, by definition,...
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International immigration and labor regulation
Levai, Adam; Turati, Riccardo - 2024
The existing literature investigating the labor market impact of immigration assumes, implicitly or explicitly, that the law or labor regulation is exogenous to immigration. To test this assumption, we build a novel workers' protection measure based on 36 labor law variables that capture labor...
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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. …
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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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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 …
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The impact of labour market dynamics on the return-migration of immigrants
Bijwaard, Govert; Schluter, Christian; Wahba, Jackline - 2011
causal effects of labour dynamics on their return decisions. Specifically, the roles of unemployment and re-employment spells … the model separately for distinct immigrant groups, and find that, overall, unemployment spells shorten immigration …
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