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Who is Hurt by Discimination?
Waisman, Gisela; Larsen, Birthe - Linnaeus Center for Integration Studies (SULCIS), … - 2008
The effects of discrimination of immigrants on the labour market are studied within a search and wage …-bargaining setting including a risk of losing skills during the experience of unemployment. The negative effects of discrimination in the … form of higher unemployment and lower wages spread to all workers, immigrants and natives, in all sectors of the economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005648706
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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
This study evaluates the local language training aimed at the unemployed in Estonia during 2015-2016. The impact of 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012257583
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Information frictions and labor market outcomes
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Loviglio, Annalisa; Piemontese, Lavinia - 2015
unemployment rate and the actual unemployment rate in the country, which is a meaningful indicator of their misperception of labor … model includes: controls for the worker's ability; country-specific fixed effects; the unemployment rate in the region of … residence, which might be the benchmark respondents have in mind when reporting their perception of the national unemployment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010528571
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Gender wage gap in Estonia : a non-parametric decomposition
Anspal, Sten - In: Baltic journal of economics 15 (2015) 1, pp. 1-16
Estonia has the highest gender wage gap in the European Union and the highest degree of gender segregation by occupation and industry. Previous studies have found that most of the gap remains unexplained by personal and job characteristics. However, key job characteristics, occupation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011890538
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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching
Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020
We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...
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Wages, Rents, Unemployment, and the Quality of Life
Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2012
Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of … life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper … shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any amenity on wages and unemployment rates are of opposite sign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010546957
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Wages, rents, unemployment, and the quality of life
Wrede, Matthias - 2012
Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of … life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper … shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any amenity on wages and unemployment rates are of opposite sign …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281917
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Wages, rents, unemployment, and the quality of life
Wrede, Matthias - 2013 - This version: March 2013
Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to … pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local … unemployment ratio decreases in response to an increase in the amenity level if the amenity is marginally more beneficial to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011560029
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Wages, rents, unemployment, and the quality of life
Wrede, Matthias - 2012
Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to … pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local … unemployment ratio decreases in response to an increase in the amenity level if the amenity is marginally more beneficial to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010309283
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Scale Effects in Markets with Search
Petrongolo, Barbara; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2003
Reduced-form tests of scale effects in markets with search, run when aggregate matching functions are estimated, may miss important scale effects at the micro level, because of the reactions of job searchers. A semi-structural model is developed and estimated on a British sample, testing for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276187