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The cyclicality of immigrant wages and labour market flows : evidence from Spain
Gálvez-Iniesta, Ismael - In: Economics : the open-access, open-assessment journal 16 (2022) 1, pp. 90-122
This article studies the responses of real wages and labour market flows of immigrants in Spain for the period between 1999 and 2019. By using Labour Force Survey microdata, I examine the cyclicality of job-finding and job-separation rates for immigrants and natives over the long Spanish...
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Unemployment : Is Switzerland an Exception?
Krahmal, Andrey - 2007
Of the recent economic developments in Switzerland, the increased unemployment level deserves special attention. In the 1990s Switzerland's long tradition of low (almost nonexistent) unemployment was broken. Although still below the levels experienced in most industrialized countries,...
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Immigration quotas and anti-immigration attitudes : an evaluation of Swiss migration policy
Lin, Qingyang - 2022
Switzerland implemented an immigration quota system to manage the inflow of immigration between 1970 and 2002. This paper adopts a difference-in-difference strategy taking advantage of subnational variations in the implementation of the quota system to evaluate this migration policy. An...
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Immigration and Crime in a Frictional Labor Market
Zhang, Shiyun - 2019
This paper studies the relationship between immigration and crime in a frictional labor market. Immigration strengthens the labor market in the host country by reducing firms' labor costs. With more immigrants in this labor market, unemployed workers find a job faster, but employed workers...
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The performance of immigrants in the German labor market
Beyer, Robert - 2017
immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with …
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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
study in which tens of thousands of 'immigrant jobs' were offered to native workers with a range of exogenously varying …
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The Adverse Effect of the COVID-19 Labor Market Shock on Immigrant Employment
Borjas, George J. - 2020
to document that the employment decline was particularly severe for immigrants. Historically, immigrant men were more … likely to be employed than native men. The COVID-related labor market disruptions eliminated the immigrant employment … advantage.By April 2020, immigrant men had lower employment rates than native men. The reversal occurred both because the rate …
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When Minority Labor Migrants Meet the Welfare State
Bratsberg, Bernt - 2007
immigrants worked and their employment rate exceeded that of natives. But, about ten years upon arrival, immigrant employment … started a sharp and steady decline. By 2000, the immigrant employment rate was 50 percent, compared to 87 percent for the … native comparison group. To some extent, the decline in immigrant employment can be explained by immigrants being …
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Unemployment benefit duration and startup success
Camarero Garcia, Sebastian; Murmann, Martin - 2024
consequence, more necessity entrepreneurship and worse startup outcomes in terms of sales and employment growth. We explain this …
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Okun's Law, Development, and Demographics : Differences in the Cyclical Sensitivities of Unemployment Across Economy and Worker Groups
An, Zidong; Bluedorn, John C.; Ciminelli, Gabriele - 2022
The negative and stable relationship between an economy’s aggregate demand conditions and overall unemployment is well-documented. We show that there is a large degree of heterogeneity in the cyclical sensitivities of unemployment across worker and economy groups. First, unemployment is more...
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