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Immigration and heterogeneous labor in Western Germany : a labor market classification based on nonparametric estimation
Frölich, Markus; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2002
This paper presents a methodology to identify net demand shocks as well as wage rigidities in heterogeneous labor markets on the basis of nonparametric regression. We show how this approach can be used to make suggestions for immigration policy in economies with labor market rigidities. In an...
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Employment effects of language training for unemployed immigrants
Lang, Julia - In: Journal of Population Economics 35 (2021) 2, pp. 719-754
immigrants. In this study, I analyze the effects of a language training program for professional purposes on the employment … intensities. Bivariate probit estimates show that 2 years after the program started, the employment probability of immigrants who …
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Russian migrants to Russia: Assimilation and local labor market effects
Lazareva, Olga - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-25
employment and wages of the local population. I show that male immigrants were fully integrated into the labor market, while … female immigrants faced significant wage and employment gaps upon arrival, and their assimilation was slow. Using an IV … population's employment but not on wages. The initial displacement effects are particularly large for men, but they disappear …
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Russian migrants to Russia : assimilation and local labor market effects
Lazareva, Olga - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-25
employment and wages of the local population. I show that male immigrants were fully integrated into the labor market, while … female immigrants faced significant wage and employment gaps upon arrival, and their assimilation was slow. Using an IV … population's employment but not on wages. The initial displacement effects are particularly large for men, but they disappear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404246
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A Positive Theory of Geographic Mobility and Social Insurance
Hassler, John; Mora, José Vicente Rodríguez; … - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2003
This paper presents a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model that can explain cross-country empirical regularities in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance (UI), taking the dynamic distortionary effects of...
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The Geographic Mobility of Displaced Workers: Do Local Employment Conditions Matter?
Yankow, Jeffrey J. - In: The Review of Regional Studies 34 (2004) 2, pp. 120-36
-likelihood proportional hazards model are supportive. A low density of local employment and low average wage levels are associated with … shorter wait times to migration. Conversely, high local employment growth rates, high wages, and low unemployment rates … correlate with an increased likelihood of obtaining local employment following displacement. …
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A positive theory of geographical mobility and social insurance
Hassler, John; Mora, Jose; Storesletten, Kjetil; … - Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES), … - 2002
This paper presents a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model that can explain cross-country empirical regularities in geographical mobility, unemployment and labor market institutions. Rational agents vote over unemployment insurance (UI), taking the dynamic distortionary effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005648799
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The IZA evaluation dataset survey: A scientific use file
Arni, Patrick; Caliendo, Marco; Künn, Steffen; … - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 3 (2014) 6, pp. 1-20
the German Federal Employment Agency with innovative survey data to study the out-mobility of individuals to work. This …
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Migration and globalization: challenges and perspectives for the research infrastructure
Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2008
International migration of people is a momentous and complex phenomenon. Research on its causes and consequences, requires sufficient data. While some datasets are available, the nature of migration complicates their scientific use. Virtually no existing dataset captures international migration...
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Pandemic Impact on Migrants, Immigrants and Reverse Migrants in India. Implications for Immediate Policy Interventions
Pazhanisamy, R. - 2020
The present Covid -19 pandemic has taken away many millions of lives across the countries and negatively affect the lifestyles of crores of households and the migrant populations are the immediate victims of such disaster. This policy brief trace and reveals the extent of migrants population in...
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