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How urbanization affects employment and social interactions
Satō, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - 2014
We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015
provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …
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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt : eine ökonomische Perspektive
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998
the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …
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Work permit regulations and migrants' labor market outcomes
Qendrai, Pamela - 2022
introduced in August 2012 - has affected entry-level wages of non-EU migrants in Germany. The Blue Card was targeted at non … the Blue Card increases entry-level wages of non-EU graduates relative to the control group by approximately 2 percent of … the pre-treatment entry-level wages. We provide suggestive evidence that these results are not driven by more or better …
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The impact of migration on wages in Costa Rica
Cardozo, Adriana R.; Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada; … - 2020
, economic and social reasons. This paper is the first to disentangle the impact of migration on wages for native Costa Rican … from the impact for already settled migrants. We analyze the effect of migration on wages within cells of education …, immigration has no effect on the wages of both natives and migrant workers with comparable skills for the period 2011 to 2019. The …
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The labor market effects of a refugee wave : synthetic control method meets the Mariel Boatlift
Peri, Giovanni; Yasenov, Vasil - 2017
departure of wages and employment of low-skilled workers between Miami and its control after 1979. The result is robust to …
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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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Labour immigration and union strength
Finseraas, Henning; Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål - 2018
To what extent is labour mobility in the European Union a threat to the strength of unions? We argue that the combination of cheap labour, workforce heterogeneity, and low unionization among labour immigrants' is a potential challenge for unions. The challenge will be particularly severe if...
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New technologies, migration and labour market adjustment : an intra-European perspective
Barišić, Antea; Ghodsi, Mahdi; Landesmann, Michael; … - 2024
results from a study that first analyses the impact of robot adoption on wages by sector and skills. Second, we study the …
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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions : consequences for the German labor market
Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
failure. -- EU enlargement ; international migration ; wages ; employment …
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