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This article provides causal evidence of the significant role ethnic networks play in facilitating labor market integration by reducing information frictions. Using full population geocoded employer-employee matched Swedish register data, we investigate how co-ethnic commuters can influence the...
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In this paper we study how the determinants of regional commuting in Italy have evolved in the past fifteen years …. Using labour force data from 1992 to 2008 we estimate a model where the probability of commuting is regressed on a wide set …, the increased utilization of temporary contracts did not have a strong impact on the commuting decisions of Italian …
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The rise in the average age of women bearing their first child is a well-established demographic trend in recent decades. Postponed childbearing can have important consequences for the mother and, at a macro level, for the country as a whole. Research has focused on the effect postponing...
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Despite unambiguous predictions of the canonical model of a competitive labor market, empirical studies on the labor market effects of payroll taxation provide conflicting evidence. Our meta-analysis shows that varying degrees of labor market competitiveness across places and time could be one...
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