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Government wage, benefit, and employment decisions are not taken on a profit-maximizing basis and have a substantial impact on aggregate labor market performance and unemployment. In a two-sector labor market model with free mobility of labor, an increase in government wages or benefits reduces...
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The impact of immigration on native workers' wages has been a topic of long-standing debate. This meta-analysis reviews 42 studies published between 1987 to 2019, offering a comprehensive assessment of reduced-form estimates of the wage effect of immigration. The results confirm that immigration...
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A sizeable literature analyses how immigration affects attitudes towards migrants and discusses differences between … on the importance of perceptions of migrants' ability to do one's job in relation to these fears. Moreover, we compare … concerns about refugees with those about EU migrants. We propose several hypotheses regarding egotropic and sociotropic motives …
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migrants' self-selection - may have been affected. Our results suggest modest effects throughout the labour market. Despite … anecdotal evidence, we found little hard evidence that the inflow of accession migrants contributed to a fall in wages or a rise …
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This paper provides an empirical investigation of the wage, price and unemployment dynamics that have taken place in Spain during the last two decades. The aim of this paper is to shed light on the impact of the European economic integration on Spanish labour market and the convergence to a...
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We use data from the Labour Force Survey to show that employed and unemployed job seekers in Great Britain originate from different occupations and find jobs in different occupations. We find substantial differences in occupational mobility between job seekers: employed job seekers are most...
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