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Where to work?: The role of the household in explaining gender differences in labour market outcomes
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John S. - 2006
explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274520
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Where to work? Gender differences in labor market outcomes during economic crisis
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John - 2011
In Central and Eastern European women started the process of transition from socialist to market economies with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281891
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Where to Work? Gender Differences in Labor Market Outcomes during Economic Crisis
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N.; Landon-Lane, John - Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung (IOS) - 2011
In Central and Eastern European women started the process of transition from socialist to market economies with a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009025182
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What happens to the careers of European workers when immigrants "take their jobs"?
Cattaneo, Cristina; Fiorio, Carlo V.; Peri, Giovanni - 2014
upward mobility their wage income also increases with a 1-2 years lag. We find no evidence of an increase in their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357967
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How do the effects of local growth on employment rates vary with initial labor market conditions?
Bartik, Timothy J. - 2009
This paper examines how the effects of increased employment growth on a metropolitan area’s employment to population ratio varies with the initial tightness of the metropolitan area’s labor market. This examination is relevant to evaluating the benefits of local economic development policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003867131
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Regional disparities in employment of high-skilled foreigners : determinants and options for migration policy in Germany
Burkert, Carola; Niebuhr, Annekatrin; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2007
We investigate the regional disparities in high-skilled foreign employment in Germany. The importance of different factors which attract highly qualified migrants to specific regions and the role of labour-migration policy is analysed. Our results show that labour-market variables as well as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009229033
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Employment convergence of immigrants in the EU : differences across genders, regions of origin and destination
Hámori, Szilvia - 2009
In light of the importance of immigrants labour market integration in the host countries, this study examines the employment convergence between foreign-born and native-born in the European Union (EU) based on the EU Labour Force Survey (EU LFS). The evidence points to numerous differences in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009229507
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Labour market dynamics in Spanish regions : evaluating asymmetries in troublesome times
Sala, Hector; Trivín, Pedro - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 2/3, pp. 197-221
via changes in unemployment, labour market participation, and spatial mobility. Our results provide evidence of asymmetric … adjustment mechanism in expansion, unemployment and spatial mobility become the central ones in recession. We also provide … long-run, the former are more reactive in terms of spatial mobility. Overall, we provide evidence that people in a region …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010422338
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Russian migrants to Russia : assimilation and local labor market effects
Lazareva, Olga - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-25
As a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union, five million Russian and Russian-speaking people repatriated to Russia during 1990 - 2002. I use this natural experiment to study labor market assimilation of migrants and their effect on the employment and wages of the local population. I show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404246
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With strings attached : grandparent-provided child care and female labor market outcomes
García-Morán, Eva; Kuehn, Zoë - 2013
level, fertility and mothers' labor force participation would increase, while mobility would remain unchanged. The absence … of grandparents, on the other hand, would increase mobility, while it would only have limited negative effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221554