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Long-term social, economic and fiscal effects of immigration into the EU : the role of the integration policy

Kancs, D'Artis; Lecca, Patrizio - 2017

The issues of the forced migration and integration of refugees in the EU society and labour markets are high on the policy agenda. Apart from humanitarian aspects, a sustainable integration of accepted refugees is important also for social, economic, budgetary and other reasons. Although, the...

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Long-run economic, budgetary and fiscal effects of Roma integration policies

Ciaian, Pavel; Ivanov, Andrej; Kancs, D'Artis - 2018

Although, the need for an efficient Roma integration policy is growing in Europe, surprisingly little robust scientific evidence regarding potential policy costs and expected benefits of alternative policy options has supported the policy design and implementation so far. The present study...

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Does employment protection legislation affect credit access? : evidence from Europe

Moro, Andrea; Maresch, Daniela; Ferrando, Annalisa; … - 2017

We investigate the impact of employment protection on firms' credit access by looking at both credit obtained from banks and firms' decision to apply for a loan. We find that greater flexibility in structuring the employees' working hours and in dismissing employees increases the probability...

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The policy drivers of self-employment : new evidence from Europe

Mourougane, Annabelle; Égert, Balázs; Baker, Mark; … - 2020

Using cross-country time series panel regressions for the last two decades, this paper seeks to identify the main policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by...

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Do Frictions Matter in the Labor Market?Accessions, Separations and Minimum Wage Effects

Dube, Arindrajit; Lester, T. William; Reich, Michael - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

We measure labor market frictions using a strategy that bridges design-based and structuralapproaches: estimating an equilibrium search model using reduced-form minimum wageelasticities identified from border discontinuities and fitted with Bayesian and LIML methods.We begin by providing the...

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Anmerkungen zum Monopson am Arbeitsmarkt: Der Zeithorizont macht den Unterschied

Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - 2012

Ob die Marktform des Monopsons am Arbeitsmarkt vorliegt, ist fur die Frage des Für oder Wider des Mindestlohns von … Strukturen am Arbeitsmarkt nachgewiesen werden, die Einführung eines Mindestlohns nicht nur zu einer exogenen Lohnerhöhung für … gilt fur den Unternehmer mit Marktmacht am Arbeitsmarkt genau dasselbe, was auch fur alle anderen Unternehmer ohne …

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Anmerkungen zum Monopson am Arbeitsmarkt: Der Zeithorizont macht den Unterschied

Sell, Friedrich L.; Reinisch, David C. - Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und … - 2012

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Colombian Labor Market Division During the Nineties

Uribe, José Ignacio; Ortiz, Carlos Humberto; García, … - 2007

This article shows that the Mincer equations, augmented with variables of firm size and corrected by selectivity bias, yield results that are consistent with the theories of human capital and labor segmentation. Greater firm endowments of human capital and physical capital are related to greater...

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Wage Gap Analysis in Context of Aggregate Labor Market Influences

Goerner, Thomas - 2007

The aim of this paper is to find underlying labor market trends and structures in the black/white wage gap in U.S. metropolitan areas (MSA). Contrary to the predictions of the traditional human capital model, this paper hypothesizes that the unexplained racial wage gap can be attributed in part...

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Immigrant Participation in Low-Wage Labor Markets

Trejo, Stephen J. - 1999

This paper analyzes immigrant participation in low-wage labor markets in the United States. Compared to natives, immigrants are overrepresented in low-wage jobs throughout their U.S. careers, and this overrepresentation is most severe for recent arrival cohorts. Immigration's impact on less...

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