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higher among foreign-born workers, reflecting weaker labor market attachment and high risk of large negative shocks for low-income … generosity and usage of benefit programs declined over time, we find stronger earnings growth among low-income workers …
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West Germany, as well as the effects of income redistribution on these populations. Taking the indigenous population of …
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among foreign‐born workers, reflecting weaker labor market attachment and high risk of large negative shocks for low‐income … the generosity and usage of benefit programs declined over time, we find stronger earnings growth among low‐income workers …
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This paper explores the association between income and stated views on minimum living standards; that is, views on … representative survey, we find the rich are less empathetic. In our baseline model, people at the bottom of the income distribution … report 10% more items as essential than do people at the top of the income distribution. The negative relationship between …
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Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic enclaves within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
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This study investigates the role of intergenerational mobility in explaining the native-immigrant income gap in Estonia …. We find that an increase of 1 percentile in parent income rank is associated with on average 0.2 percentile increase in … child income rank for both natives and second-generation immigrants. Results from a detailed Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition …
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The present study examines the income growth of newly arrived immigrants in Canada using growth curve modeling of …-up. This racial difference in recent immigrants' income growth is found to be caused by the fact that visible minority …
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This study examines how minimum wage laws affect the employment and earnings of low-skilled immigrants and natives in the U.S. Minimum wage increases might have larger effects among low-skilled immigrants than among natives because, on average, immigrants earn less than natives due to lower...
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Recent immigrants tend to locate in ethnic enclaves within metropolitan areas. The economic consequence of living in such enclaves is still an unresolved issue. We use an immigrant policy initiative in Sweden, when government authorities distributed refugee immigrants across locales in a way...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571932