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The Danish labor market, 2000-2016

Andersen, Torben M. - In: IZA World of Labor (2017)

Denmark is often highlighted as a “flexicurity” country characterized by rather lax employment protection legislation, generous unemployment insurance, and active labor market policies. Despite a sharp and prolonged decline in employment in the wake of the Great Recession, high job turnover...

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The labor market in New Zealand, 2000-2017

Maré, David C. - In: IZA World of Labor (2018)

New Zealand is a small open economy, with large international labor flows and skilled immigrants. Since 2000, employment growth has kept pace with strong migration-related population growth. While overall employment rates have remained relatively stable, they have increased substantially for...

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Ethnic inequality in retirement income: a comparative analysis of immigrant-native gaps in Western Europe

Heisig, Jan Paul; Lancee, Bram; Radl, Jonas - In: Ageing & Society 38 (2018) 10, pp. 1963-1994

Previous research unequivocally shows that immigrants are less successful in the labour market than the native-born population. However, little is known about whether ethnic inequality persists after retirement. We use data on 16 Western European countries from the European Union Statistics on...

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The Effects of Immigration on Wages: An Application of the Structural Skill-Cell Approach

Gerfin, Michael; Kaiser, Boris - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 146 (2010) 4, pp. 709-739

This paper investigates how recent immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008 have affected wages in Switzerland. This … immigration inflows, we follow the "structural skill-cell approach" as for example employed by Borjas (2003) and Ottaviano and … on domestic wages using the actual immigration inflows from 2002 to 2008. For the long run, the simulations produce some …

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Who Opposes Immigrants' Integration into the Labor Market? The Swiss Case

Müller, Tobias; Tai, Silvio H. T. - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 146 (2010) 4, pp. 741-767

-worker system is preferred to a non-discriminatory immigration regime and why measures to improve the integration of low …

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Free Migration between the EU and Switzerland: Impacts on the Swiss Economy and Implications for Monetary Policy

Stalder, Peter - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 146 (2010) 4, pp. 821-874

The agreement with the European Union on liberalized migration had sizable effects on the Swiss economy. Simulations with a macroeconometric model show that the agreement mitigated the incidence of labor shortages and stimulated business investment, giving rise to an increased growth potential....

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Immigration and Swiss House Prices

Degen, Kathrin; Fischer, Andreas M. - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 153 (2017) 1, pp. 15-36

This study examines the behavior of Swiss house prices in relation to immigration flows for 85 regions from 2001 to … 2006. The results show that the nexus between immigration and house prices holds even in an environment of low house price … inflation and modest immigration flows. An immigration inflow equal to 1 % of an area’s population is coincident with an …

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Does Immigration Undermine Public Support for Social Policy?

Brady, David; Finnigan, Ryan - In: American Sociological Review 79 (2014) 1, pp. 17-42

There has been great interest in the relationship between immigration and the welfare state in recent years, and … in the U.S. welfare state, and anti-immigrant sentiments, many contend that immigration undermines public support for … social policy. This study analyzes three measures of immigration and six welfare attitudes using 1996 and 2006 International …

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Immigrants and entrepreneurship

Lofstrom, Magnus; Wang, Chunbei - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)

Immigrants are widely perceived to be highly entrepreneurial, contributing to economic growth and innovation, and self-employment is often viewed as a means of enhancing labor market integration and success among immigrants. Accordingly, many countries have established special visas and entry...

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Can immigrants ever earn as much as native workers?

Anderson, Kathryn H. - In: IZA World of Labor (2019)

Immigrants contribute to the economic development of the host country, but they earn less at entry and it takes many years for them to achieve parity of income. For some immigrant groups, the wage gap never closes. There is a wide variation across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of...

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