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discrimination against immigrants, the average fiscal impact of immigration is negative, but it becomes positive if discrimination … results indicate that wage discrimination against immigrants could significantly affect our estimates of the fiscal impact of … literature has found fiscal impacts that are close to zero. However, these studies have ignored the possibility that immigrants …
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Inequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination. We use a dynamic perspective to show the … linkages between persistent effects of discrimination in the labour market and the efficacy of redistributive fiscal policy in …
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Low-skilled immigrants indirectly affect public finances through their effect on resident wages & labor supply. We …
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generates a negative effect on wages and an increase in the unemployment rate--and skilled workers, who benefit from higher … wages and lower unemployment. These changes in the labor market affect the government's revenue, resulting, in the long term …
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Would countercyclical fiscal policy during recessions improve or worsen the gender employment gap? We give an answer to this question by exploring the state-dependent impact of fiscal spending shocks on employment by gender in the G-7 countries. Using the local projection method, we find that,...
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individual life-cycle contributions. The main conclusion is that immigrants from richer countries have a positive fiscal impact …, while immigrants from poorer countries have a large negative one. The negative effect is caused by both a weak labour market …
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labor market to compare unemployment insurance (UI) expansions and payroll subsidies. In isolation, payroll subsidies that …
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Men, especially those that are young and less educated, typically bear the brunt of recessions because of the stronger cyclicality of their employment and wages relative to women’s. We study the extent to which fiscal policy may offset or worsen these asymmetric effects across gender. Using...
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This paper intends to examine the extent of the fiscal contribution of immigrants to Korea. According to this analysis … contribution of immigrants in Korea by visa type, age, and other characteristics. According to this analysis, the sum of the … lifetime fiscal contribution for all immigrants in Korea is negative. This implies that immigration policy reforms that …
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between employed skilled and unskilled labour. However, unskilled unemployment and labour income inequality within the group … workers. However, unemployment for skilled workers rises and skilled wages and labour income fall in the short-run. We finally …
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