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The use and impact of job search procedures by migrant workers in China
Fang, Tony; Gunderson, Morley; Lin, Carl - 2015
Job search procedures are a form of human capital investment in that they involve current investments to enhance future returns, analogous to human capital investments in areas such as education, training and mobility that yield future returns. While the theoretical and empirical literature on...
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Job displacement and migrant labor market assimilation
Balgova, Maria; Illing, Hannah - 2023
This paper sheds new light on the barriers to migrants' labor market assimilation. Using administrative data for Germany from 1997-2016, we estimate dynamic difference-in-differences regressions to investigate the relative trajectory of earnings, wages, and employment following mass layoff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014314127
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Job displacement and migrant labor market assimilation
Balgova, Maria; Illing, Hannah - 2023
This paper sheds new light on the barriers to migrants' labor market assimilation. Using administrative data for Germany from 1997-2016, we estimate dynamic difference-in-differences regressions to investigate the relative trajectory of earnings, wages, and employment following mass layoff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014319189
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Public or private job matching for immigrant workers an outline of a Swedish social experiment
Carling, Kenneth; Bennmarker, Helge; Forslund, Anders - 2001
Evaluations of labour market programs and other related measures typically make use of observational data. This paper presents an outline for producing experimental data in the interest of testing a proposed measure targeted to un-employed immigrant workers. The idea is to offer them placement...
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Labor market frictions and moving costs of the employed and unemployed
Ransom, Tyler - 2019
This paper examines the role of labor market frictions and moving costs in explaining the migration behavior of US workers by employment status. Using data on low-skilled workers from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), I estimate a dynamic model of individual labor supply and...
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First fired, first hired? : business cycles and immigrant labor market transitions
Xu, Huanan - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 8 (2018) 19, pp. 1-36
monthly transitions among employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. Immigrants are found to be first fired and first … hired over the business cycle, and the aggregate unemployment gap is caused by immigrants’ higher rates in the unemployment …
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Do high-skilled immigrants find jobs faster than low-skilled immigrants? : conference paper
Hochfellner, Daniela; Wapler, Rüdiger - 2014 - Preliminary version: 27th February 2014
This paper investigates the role that pre-immigration skills play in immigrants job-finding processes in Germany. We first show theoretically that the job-finding rate for the high-skilled varies depending on their search strategy: if they are prepared to look for both unskilled as well as...
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A search and matching approach to business-cycle migration in the euro area
Clemens, Marius; Hart, Janine - 2019
Recently migration patterns in the euro area changed markedly in response to increasing unemployment disparities. This … business-cycle related fluctuations in net migration flows and the crucial role of unemployment and vacancies in shaping …-cycle migration. In this model unemployment arises from search and matching frictions. We endogenize migration via the unemployed …
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The early effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the labour market outcomes of natives and migrants in the UK
Morando, Greta - 2021
using UK data, it finds that unemployment has increased for both natives and migrants as has, consequently, the benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612597
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Job Displacement and Migrant Labor Market Assimilation
Balgova, Maria; Illing, Hannah - 2023
This paper sheds new light on the barriers to migrants' labor market assimilation. Using administrative data for Germany from 1997-2016, we estimate dynamic difference-in-differences regressions to investigate the relative trajectory of earnings, wages, and employment following mass layoff...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343948