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The Effect of Weather-Induced Internal Migration on Local Labor Markets: Evidence from Uganda

Strobl, Eric; Valfort, Marie-Anne - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Relying on census data collected in 2002 and historical weather data for Uganda, we estimate the impact of weather-induced internal migration on the probability for non-migrants living in the destination regions to be employed. Our results reveal a significant negative impact. Consistent with...

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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of Skilled Workers: Labor Markets in the EU New Member States

Rutkowski, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment … was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and unemployment has dropped substantially. In contrast to the earlier … jobs because no major reforms to labor market institutions were recently implemented in the region. Instead, the main cause …

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Labor Market Dynamics in Tunisia: The Issue of Youth Unemployment

Stampini, Marco; Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

2007 that include a longitudinal component. It first shows that sustained economic growth will reduce youth unemployment … reduce youth unemployment. Third, the analysis of labor market characteristics reveals that young graduates experience long … unemployment as they cue for high-skill jobs. Moreover, the public sector remains the main provider of employment opportunities for …

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The Labor Market Costs of Conflict: Closures, Foreign Workers, and Palestinian Employment and Earnings

Miaari, Sami H.; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

In this paper, we measure the implications of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for Palestinian employment and earnings. We quantify the conflict by the frequency of temporary closures of the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the number of overseas foreign workers in the Israeli labor market. Data on...

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Work Hours Constraints: Impacts and Policy Implications

Constant, Amelie F.; Otterbach, Steffen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

If individuals reveal their preference as consumers, then they are taken seriously. What happens if individuals, as employees, reveal their preferences in working hours? And what happens if there is a misalignment between actual hours worked and preferred hours, the so-called work hours...

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The Importance of Heterogeneity When Examining Immigrant Education-Occupation Mismatch: Evidence from New Zealand

Poot, Jacques; Stillman, Steven - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

Many immigrants are overqualified in their first job after arrival in the host country. Education-occupation mismatch can affect the economic integration of immigrants and the returns to education and experience. The extent of this problem has been measured in recent years by means of micro...

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Immigration and Structural Change: Evidence from Post-War Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Kvasnicka, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Does immigration accelerate sectoral change towards high-productivity sectors? This paper uses the mass displacement of ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe to West Germany after World War II as a natural experiment to study this question. A simple two-sector model of the economy, in which moving...

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Evolution of the Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Labor Market from 2002 to 2007

Qu, Zhaopeng; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data sets. Our focus is on the rural-urban migration decision, the wage structure of migrants, the urban labor market segmentation between migrants and urban natives, and the changes...

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Can Vocational Education Improve the Wages of Minorities and Disadvantaged Groups? The Case of Israel

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...

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Workplace, Human Capital and Ethnic Determinants of Sickness Absence in Sweden, 1993–2001

Bengtsson, Tommy; Scott, Kirk - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This study charts the differences between the sickness absence of immigrants and Swedes during a period when a flourishing labour market in the beginning of the 1990s turned into a tense and problematic one. We consider not only human capital factors for various immigrant groups and natives, but...

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