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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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In Germany, immigrant unemployment is not only higher than native unemployment; italso reacts more to changes in the … situation on the labor market. Decomposing the gapbetween native and immigrant unemployment into a baseline and a labor …-marketsituation component, I find that the unemployment rate of immigrants would lie at 5.6 percentagepoints for zero native unemployment (the …
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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...
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wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage … wages of displaced workers after their return to work. Women experienced smaller wage losses than men. For both sexes, over … wage loss. Collectively, the sorting and matching channels explain almost all of the Hartz reforms' effect on post …
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workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …
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The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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to re‑enter the labour market, resulting in further long‑term unemployment. Given these high costs for the unemployed and …
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We analyze wage discrimination against foreign male workers in Germany with respect to different nationality groups and … discrimination itself we applied a tobit estimation procedure to the wage equation and carried out the usual Blinder …/Oaxaca decomposition in the second step. We found a slight discrimination against all foreign male workers together, but considerably …
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We investigate whether women search longer for a job than men and whether these differences change over the life cycle … analyze gender differences in job search taking into account observed and unobserved worker heterogeneity and censoring … difference in job search duration among the very young and older workers. These differential outcomes remain even after we …
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