reallocation of different workers across tasks and into employment. This ensures that there nearly always exists some combination … of task-specific demand shocks that induce aggregate employment and wages to negatively comove even in a frictionless … show that a frictionless model with realistic heterogeneity can replicate the mean wage increase and employment collapse of …

effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment …

application for occupational recognition. Our findings show substantial employment and wage gains from occupational recognition …. After three years, the full recognition of immigrants’ foreign qualifications increases their employment rates by 24 … increase in employment is largely driven by a higher propensity to work in regulated occupations. Relating our findings to the …

The paper investigates whether self-employment represents a way to reduce overeducation and improve labour market … results shed light on the extent to which immigrants adjust to labour market imperfections and barriers to employment and … first study to systematically study the nexus between overeducation and self-employment in a comparative framework. Moreover …