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We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants' eligibility criteria for permanent residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform intended, the overall employment of those affected...
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Prior studies show that taxes matter for the residential locations of high-income earners. But, states raise a significant share of revenue from nonresidents. Using variation in state tax rates, we provide causal evidence on the effect of the net-of-tax rate on the location of labor supply for...
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The quality of workers in a country positively relates to productivity of firms, adoption of new technologies, and growth. This paper studies adjustments of Italian firms to negative labor supply shocks in the context of workers' outflows from Italy to Switzerland. My diff-in-diff leverages the...
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Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also frequently changed policies and regulations concerning integration programs, transfer payments, and conditions for permanent residency. Such policy variation in conjunction with...
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This paper examines the effect of one partner's overseas migration on the other non-migrant partner's labor force participation and supply behavior. I compare the effect when the migrant partner is male and when she is female. The study uses merged 2003 data sets from the nationally...
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This paper analyzes the impact of source-country culture on the labor supply of female immigrants in Europe. We find that the labor supply of immigrant women is positively associated with the female-to-male labor force participation ratio in their source country, which serves as a proxy for the...
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Low-skilled immigration has been argued to lower the price of services that are close substitutes for household … native workers in household service occupations due to LAWA, which offset the decline in immigrants in these occupations and … caused the cost of household services to be relatively uninfluenced by the passage of LAWA. …
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diminishes with age. I examine several hypotheses for this phenomenon, among which the division of labor within the household is …
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the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We …
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the collective approach for household behaviour and the discrete hours choice framework with fixed costs of work. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011376311