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Ageing is a central issue in policy debates in many countries. Much of the attention in the current debate is focused on (a) the labour supply and (b) aggregate problems at national levels. The present paper asks a distinct but related question by examining how ageing changes the regional...
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Two stylised facts of the German labour market are that first, the demand for (high-)skilled labour has been growing rapidly for a number of years and second, the country is facing a particularly strong demographic change with the expected size of the population decreasing rapidly and the...
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Demografischer Wandel und die strukturellen Veränderungen auf dem Arbeitsmarkt tragen gemeinsam zur Alterung des Beschäftigtenbestands bei. Während der demografische Wandel eine gesellschaftliche Entwicklung ist, variieren Arbeitsmarkttrends über Berufe. Basierend auf Beschäftigtendaten der...
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According to demographic projections, advanced economies will face population decline in the years and decades to come, particularly among working-age. Despite this impending profound transition, there is little empirical evidence of corresponding labour market implications. Tackling this...
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Two stylised facts of the German labour market are that first, the demand for highskilled labour has been growing rapidly for a number of years and second, the Country is facing a particularly strong demographic change with the expected size of the Population decreasing rapidly and the average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527624
using firm level data would be needed to explicitly test for this hypothesis. Despite being an under-estimation of the …
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have crowded out natives, our quasi-experimental results reveal that immigration has in fact reduced unemployment and …We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland …, whose foreign labor force has increased by 32.8% in the last ten years. To address endogeneity of immigration into different …
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Manpower constraints are the pervasive lack of specialized high- and low-skill workers, irrespective of the wage firms might offer.
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During the 1960s and 1970s a large number of immigrants came to Germany as temporary labour migrants. Many of them … from those migrants who came later as family members, especially in terms of unemployment. These differences are more … market which points towards positive long-run effects of the guest worker policy measure. However, the migrants stemming from …
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rise in the age at marriage, divorce rates would be considerably higher. Immigration and secularization, and the resulting …
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