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, and a temporary impact on unemployment. However, labour market integration of immigrants (as well as integration of second …immigration for natives' labour market outcomes, as well as issues linked to immigrants' integration in the host … country labour market. Changes in the share of immigrants in the labour force may have a distributive impact on natives' wages …
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major challenges for policy makers in Finland. The recession of the early 1990s showed that high unemployment can leave long …, greater flexibility in wage setting, ensuring earlier activation of unemployed and reforming unemployment and social benefits … to better support work incentives. Finland has an unusual combination of elevated unemployment replacement rates and late …
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immigrants are characterized by above average age and by professional occupations. On the other hand, labour markets for young … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …
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: an internal migration function is estimated using district wage and unemployment rate differentials. The aggregate level … wages and unemployment, included in the migration equation, are retrieved from a first stage wage and unemployment equations …. The results reveal that both wage and unemployment differentials are important determinants of the propensity to migrate …
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This paper uses the immigration sample of the German Socioeconomic Panel to analyse the earnings and unemployment … earnings differential between immigrants from Eastern Europe and comparable East Germans at the time of immigration. With … Poland and the former USSR have higher unemployment risks than those from East Germany or Romania. Ethnic networks are shown …
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I examine how the labor market in which firms operate affects their capital structure decisions. Based on US Census Bureau data and information on companies' decisions to locate their new operations, I use a large plant opening as an abrupt increase in the size of a local labor market. I find...
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immigrants are characterized by above average age and by professional occupations. On the other hand, labor markets for young … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320682
immigrants are characterized by above average age and by professional occupations. On the other hand, labor markets for young … workers in service occupations are identified to exhibit rising unemployment due to wage rigidities and are therefore not …
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This paper analyzes the process of entry of highly skilled immigrants into the Israeli labor market, using panel data … on several cohorts of recent immigrants from the former USSR. The study develops and estimates an on-the-job search model … on the wages of immigrants from earlier waves, allow the simulation of an occupational path and associated wages, for …
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This paper analyzes the process of entry of highly skilled immigrants into the Israeli labor market, using panel data … on several cohorts of recent immigrants from the former USSR. The study develops and estimates an on-the-job search model … on the wages of immigrants from earlier waves, allow the simulation of an occupational path and associated wages, for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014119990