This paper used data on career destinations over the period 1999-2015 to study the labour market outcomes of native and foreign PhD graduates staying on in Australia as skilled migrants. Natives with an English-speaking background emerge as benefiting from positive employer 'discrimination' (a...

Social entrepreneurship is becoming increasingly popular in Latvia because it allows enterprises to implement economic activities while tackling social problems relevant to society. Since 2018, when the Social Enterprise Law was introduced, the number of registered social enterprises has reached...

The experience of German reunification shows that commodity, capital and financial markets can be integrated smoothly during the integration process of the different economic systems. However, the integration of the labor market did not happen easily, and the creation of favorable institutional...

Da urbane Orte die primären Zielorte für Zuwandernde sind, hat sich die Forschung bislang mit wenigen Ausnahmen auf den städtischen Bereich konzentriert. Folglich gibt es kaum systematisch und überregional vergleichende Forschung zum Leben von Geflüchteten im Stadt-Land-Vergleich. Noch...

Per effetto di molteplici processi tecnologici, demografici, culturali e globali, il lavoro sta trasformandosi nelle forme e significati; la pandemia da Covid-19 ha inoltre mostrato che, in determinate condizioni, queste trasformazioni possono conoscere improvvise accelerazioni. È aumentata la...

Young workers in Spain face the unprecedented impact of the Great Recession and the COVID-19 crisis in short sequence. Moreover, they have also experienced a deterioration in their employment and earnings over the last three decades. In this paper, we document this evolution and adopt a...

Internship contracts (ICs) were designed as a stepping stone for educated young workers to develop their professional skills upon graduation. Such contracts incentivise employment creation, as firms benefit from lower wages and tax reductions, but at the same time, firms are expected to develop...

Upon arrival to a new country, many immigrants face job downgrading, a phenomenon describing workers being in jobs far below where they would be assigned based on their skills. Downgrading leads to immigrants receiving lower returns to the same skills than natives. The level of downgrading could...