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' labor market behavior, we show that immigrants who enter unemployment when a terrorist event hits their home country are 1 ….8 percentage points more likely to be employed within three months than immigrants who enter unemployment in quiet times. Among … more likely to work part-time. These results suggest that immigrants who enter unemployment in a month with high levels of …
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In this study we develop and calibrate a search and matching model of the German labour market and analyze the impact of recent immigration. Our model has two production sectors (manufacturing and services), two skill groups and two ethnic groups of workers (natives and immigrants). Moreover, we...
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This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We first show theoretically that the job-finding rate for the high-skilled varies depending on their search strategy: if they are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as...
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Most immigrant groups experience higher rates of unemployment than the host countries native population, but it is as … native born and immigrant groups, in terms of their impact on the duration of unemployment. Our main finding is that … unemployment cannot generally be explained by differences in the choice of main job search method or in observable characteristics …
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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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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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workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …
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This paper examines how unemployment and cultural anxiety have triggered different dimensions of the current populism … (IM) to investigate the effects of recent unemployment and unauthorized immigration on attitudes related to populism. I … find that recent unemployment during GR, rather than existing unemployment from before GR, increased the probability of …
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This paper is concerned with the study of the labor market performance of immigrants. The unemployment rate is used as …, probit regressions on the unemployment probabilities are estimated for the pooled crosssection of 1991 and 1995, taking into … account nationality- and gender-specific differences. In a second step, and based on the finding that unemployment rates …
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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/10010277289