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emphasis on their evolution over the business cycle. Blacks have substantially higher and more cyclical unemployment rates than … comparatively higher risk of job loss. In contrast, the Hispanic-white unemployment rate gap is comparatively small and is largely …
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Using data from the CPS this paper examines the role of birth-country networks on immigrants' unemployment duration … from 2001 to 2013. We find that networks significantly lower unemployment duration for all immigrants. Varying the effect … of networks over duration categories we find that networks are more effective in lowering duration for immigrants …
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do immigrants fare with respect to wages, employment, and occupational choices; are immigrants in competition with the … natives, and do they harm or improve the labour market situation of natives; does the presence of immigrants alter the …? The studies reviewed showed that while some immigrant groups are faring well, assimilation and intergenerational mobility …
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We analyze differences in unemployment between natives and immigrants over the business cycle. Using matched employer …-employee data for Austria, we find that immigrants' unemployment rate and flows into and out of unemployment are significantly more … sensitive to labor market shocks than those of comparable natives. This is particularly true for immigrants from outside the …
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for immigrants than for natives: a one percentage point increase in the unemployment rate is associated with a 0.61 and 0 …This article studies the responses of real wages and labour market flows of immigrants in Spain for the period between … for immigrants and natives over the long Spanish economic expansion and the sharp contraction. During the expansion, 1999 …
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mobility. Our finding suggest that the role, influence and interconnection of unemployment and homeownership in mobility …The Spanish labour market is characterised by high levels of unemployment, which have increased during the global …% of households being owner-occupiers. Both regional levels of unemployment and homeownership are known to be important …
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Using data from the CPS this paper examines the role of birth-country networks on immigrants' unemployment duration … from 2001 to 2013. We find that networks significantly lower unemployment duration for all immigrants. Varying the effect … of networks over duration categories we find that networks are more effective in lowering duration for immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012982118
We document the sources behind the costs of job loss over the business cycle using administrative data from Germany. Losses in annual earnings after displacement are large, persistent, and highly cyclical, nearly doubling in size during downturns. A large part of the long-term earnings losses...
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What is the role of formal labor market institutions in the impact of crises on wages and employment? We study wage adjustment during the recent crisis in Italy's regulated labor market using the unregulated informal labor market as a counterfactual. We use a unique dataset on immigrant workers...
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