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The digital transformation imposes both opportunities and risks for creativity and for creative employment, with implications for trends in income levels and the distribution of income. First, we consider skill-biased technological change as a determinant of income and labor market outcomes in...
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wages and their respective outcomes across sectors and various worker characteristics. To analyze the pandemic's impacts on …) regressions. We also estimate the effects on real daily wages through OLS regressions on subsamples of wage and salary workers … larger on employment than on real wages, in contrast to findings for previous crises which found the reverse to be true …
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This paper uses a large survey (SOEP) to update and deepen our knowledge about the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It documents that immigrant workers initially earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for...
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to maintain their real wages by reducing labor demand still further. Furthermore, we argue inflationary pressures have …
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Upon arrival in a host country, immigrants often have lower obesity rates (as measured for instance by BMI-body mass index) than their native counterparts do, but these rates converge over time. In light of the worldwide obesity epidemic and the flow of immigrants into host countries with higher...
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people, particularly women, are less likely to be employed and, when employed, are likely to earn lower wages. There is some …
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In light of the remarkable number of young people who pass through a period of temp work at the beginning of their career the question arises whether labor market entry via temporary work agency (TWA) employment has any (persistent) effects on labor market outcomes. We investigate this issue...
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