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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002 - November 1999 (revised: May 2002)
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L. - 1999
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001437668
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Fiscal policy, labour market, and inequality : diagnosing South Africa's anomalies in the shadow of racial discrimination
D'Agostino, Giorgio; Giuli, Francesco; Lorusso, Marco; … - 2020
Inequality in South Africa is the enduring legacy of racial discrimination. We use a dynamic perspective to show the linkages between persistent effects of discrimination in the labour market and the efficacy of redistributive fiscal policy in reducing inequality. We present a machine-learning...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012299604
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Estimating workforce disposal in the Italian labour market
Contini, Bruno; Grand, Elisa - 2014
workforce common to all EU member countries: flows from regular employment to non-employment are very often dead-ends. A vast …-term unemployed or leave the workforce altogether, never to regain regular employment even after as long as twenty years. Many join … the ranks of the irregular economy, many drop out of the labour force. "Workforce disposal" refers to the process …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354545
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Gender gaps of the unemployed : what drives diverging labor market outcomes?
Dauth, Christine - 2016
forcieren. Arbeitslose Frauen schneiden am Arbeitsmarkt vor allem wegen früherer Entscheidungen bezüglich ihrer Berufswahl …, Teilzeitarbeit und ihrer Nähe zum Arbeitsmarkt schlechter ab. Regionale Disparitäten, unter anderem mögliche Vermittlungsunterschiede …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535887
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Racial gaps in labor market outcomes in the last four decades and over the business cycle
Cajner, Tomaz; Radler, Tyler; Ratner, David D.; … - 2017
We examine racial disparities in key labor market outcomes for men and women over the past four decades, with a special emphasis on their evolution over the business cycle. Blacks have substantially higher and more cyclical unemployment rates than whites, and observable characteristics can...
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When work disappears : racial prejudice and recession labour market penalties
Johnston, David; Lordan, Grace - 2014
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Racial discrimination in the US labor market : employment and wage differentials by skill
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - 2014
In the US labor market the average black worker is exposed to a lower employment rate and earns a lower wage compared to his white counterpart. Lang and Lehmann (2012) argue that these mean differences mask substantial heterogeneity along the distribution of workers' skill. In particular, they...
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Racial discrimination in the US labor market : employment and wage differentials by skill
Borowczyk-Martins, Daniel; Bradley, Jake; Tarasonis, Linas - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010362572
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Do employer preferences contribute to sticky floors?
Baert, Stijn; De Pauw, Ann-Sophie; Deschacht, Nick - 2014
We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared to men, less likely to start to climb the job ladder. To this end we perform a randomised field experiment in the Belgian labour market and test whether hiring discrimination...
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