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Job mobility offers opportunities for workers to obtain wage increases, but returns to job changes differ considerably. We argue that parts of this inequality result from a trade-off between occupational and regional mobility. Both mobility types offer alternative strategies to improve one's...
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This paper develops and estimates a spatial general equilibrium job search model to study the effects of local and universal (federal) minimum wage policies. In the model, firms post vacancies in multiple locations. Workers, who are heterogeneous in terms of location and education types, engage...
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This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected impact is shown to be three to five times larger for income and two to three times larger for poverty than is obtained … corrected for the change in household size. -- migration ; income ; poverty ; underestimation ; reference groups …
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This study investigates the role of intergenerational mobility in explaining the native-immigrant income gap in Estonia …. A rich registry dataset on yearly earnings and different background characteristics for the period of 2007-2017 is used …. We find that an increase of 1 percentile in parent income rank is associated with on average 0.2 percentile increase in …
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The present study examines the income growth of newly arrived immigrants in Canada using growth curve modeling of … earnings disadvantage. However, while immigrants of European origins experience a period of “catch up” early in their Canadian … careers, which allows them to overcome this earnings disadvantage, visible minority immigrants do not enjoy such a catch …
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generosity and usage of benefit programs declined over time, we find stronger earnings growth among low-income workers …This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985- 2016. The deep recession in the … early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the …
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the generosity and usage of benefit programs declined over time, we find stronger earnings growth among low‐income workers …This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985-2016. The deep recession in the early … 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact …
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comparable data from five countries - Sweden, Belgium, Germany, Norway and the U.S. - to ask whether immigrants benefit more from … receipt. On the other hand, we confirm the existence of large social income gaps in favor of non - EU immigrants, but these … wage income. Household characteristics play a key role in 'explaining' the gap in Scandinavian countries, while individual …
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