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Matching and sorting across regions
Lacava, Chiara - 2021
matching model with heterogeneous workers and firms estimated with administrative data. In an application to Italy, I find that …
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What Attracts Human Capital? Understanding the Skill Composition of Interregional Job Matches in Germany
Arntz, Melanie - 2008
of internal job matching flows in Germany. Estimates from a nested logit model of destination choice suggest that spatial … job matching patterns by high-skilled individuals are mainly driven by interregional income differentials, while … unemployment. Simulating job matching patterns in a scenario of economic convergence between eastern and western Germany …
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Language training for unemployed non-natives: who benefits the most?
Kivi, Laura Helena; Sõmer, Marko; Kallaste, Epp - In: Baltic journal of economics 20 (2020) 1, pp. 34-58
training on employment probability and labour income is estimated by combining propensity score matching with coarsened exact … matching. The impact on the probability of being employed is found to be positive after the end of the lock-in effect. Two …
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Modelling the effects of immigration on regional economic performance and the wage distribution: a CGE analysis of three EU regions
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Roberts, Deborah; Balamou, Eudokia - 2009
The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first, total labour supply is affected. In the second, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269548
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Modelling the effects of immigration on regional economic performance and the wage distribution : a CGE analysis of three EU regions
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Roberts, Deborah; Balamou, Eudokia - 2009
The paper uses a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model to analyse the effects of immigration on three small remote EU regions located within Scotland, Greece and Latvia. Two migration scenarios are assessed. In the first, total labour supply is affected. In the second, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931306
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Labor-market exposure as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration
Ortega, Francesc; Polavieja, Javier G. - 2009
This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim two main contributions. First, we use more sophisticated measures of the degree of exposure to competition from immigrants than previously done. Specifically, we focus on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269562
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Complements or substitutes? Task specialization by gender and nativity in Spain
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; de la Rica, Sara - 2009
Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in the U.S. Yet, despite the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276403
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Rethinking the area approach: Immigrants and the labor market in California, 1960-2005
Peri, Giovanni - 2009
A series of recent influential papers has emphasized that in order to identify the wage effects of immigration one needs to consider national effects by skill level. The criticism to the so called „area approach“ is based on the fact that native workers are mobile and would eliminate, in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282079
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Labor-market exposure as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration
Ortega, Francesc; Polavieja, Javier G. - 2009
This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim two main contributions. First, we use more sophisticated measures of the degree of exposure to competition from immigrants than previously done. Specifically, we focus on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906225
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Rethinking the area approach : immigrants and the labor market in California, 1960 - 2005
Peri, Giovanni - 2009
A series of recent influential papers has emphasized that in order to identify the wage effects of immigration one needs to consider national effects by skill level. The criticism to the so called ʺarea approachʺ is based on the fact that native workers are mobile and would eliminate, in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879010