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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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high-skill workers. In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …
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regulatory conditions on immigrant-native gaps across four outcomes; unemployment, monthly earnings, underemployment, and … precarious contracts. The empirical results suggest that immigrant-native gaps are larger in countries with more immigrants … immigrants' chances of holding temporary contracts. A stricter regulation of temporary contracts increases immigrants' risk of …
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Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is … points six or more years after the start of the first job, an effect not observed for non-conational immigrants, with no …
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employment and wages of the local population. I show that male immigrants were fully integrated into the labor market, while … female immigrants faced significant wage and employment gaps upon arrival, and their assimilation was slow. Using an IV … strategy to account for the endogenous choice of location, I find a negative effect of the inflows of immigrants on the local …
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immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining … immigration enforcement mutes job creation and raises the unemployment rate of all workers, having an even larger detrimental …
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This paper makes three contributions to the existing literature. First, it provides descriptive evidence on gender differentials by education level in the US labor market over the last twenty years. Second, it uses the structural estimation of a search model of the labor market to identify and...
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Immigrants to Australia are selected on observable characteristics. They may also differ from natives on unobservable … heterogeneity also seems important for finding cohort effects. Immigrants that arrived before 1985 faced a larger wage gap compared …
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structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs …
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