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Clark, Andrew E; Postel-Vinay, Fabien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

and OECD summary measures of Employment Protection Legislation (EPL) strictness on one hand, and Unemployment Insurance …

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Who Trusts Others?

Alesina, Alberto F; La Ferrara, Eliana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Both individual experiences and community characteristics influence how much people trust each other. Using individual level data drawn from US localities we find that the strongest factors associated with low trust are: i) a recent history of traumatic experiences; ii) belonging to a group that...

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Optimal Life Cycle Unemployment Insurance

Michelacci, Claudio; Ruffo, Hernán - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We argue that US welfare would rise if unemployment insurance were increased for younger and decreased for older … accumulate high-return human capital. So unemployment insurance is most valuable to them, while moral hazard is mild. By …

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A Structural Non-Stationary Model of Job Search: Stigmatization of the Unemployed by Job Offers or Wage Offers?

Lollivier, Stefan; Rioux, Laurence - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We develop a structural non-stationary model of job search in the fashion of van den Berg (1990). Non-stationarity comes from the duration-dependence in benefits, in the arrival rate of job offers, and in wage offers. The model is then estimated using the French sample of the ECHP Survey...

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Immigrant Selection in The OECD

Belot, Michèle; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

The selection of immigrants by skill and education is a central issue in the analysis of immigration. Since highly … what determines the skill-selectivity of immigration. In this paper we examine the proportions of highly educated among … migrants from around 80 source countries who were observed as immigrants in each of 29 OECD countries in 2000/1. We develop a …

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The Impact of Immigration on the Educational Attainment of Natives

Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Using a state panel based on census data from 1940-2010, I examine the impact of immigration on the high school …

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Bridges or Buffers? Motives behind Immigrants’ Religiosity - A Comparative Study of Europe and the United States

García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Abstract: This study reviews and evaluates the motives and incentives behind immigrants’ religiosity, focusing on the two sides of the Atlantic – Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify indicators for the type of incentive –...

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The Tower of Babel in the Classroom: Immigrants and Natives in Italian Schools

Ballatore, Rosario Maria; Fort, Margherita; Ichino, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We exploit rules of class formation to identify the causal effect of increasing the number of immigrants in a classroom on natives test scores, keeping class size constant (Pure Composition Effect). We explain why this is a relevant policy parameter although it has been neglected so far. We show...

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Ethnic Identity and Immigrant Homeownership

Constant, Amelie; Roberts, Rowan; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Immigrants are much less likely to own their homes than natives, even after controlling for a broad range of life-cycle and socio-economic characteristics and housing market conditions. This paper extends the analysis of immigrant housing tenure choice by explicitly accounting for ethnic...

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Racial and Economic Factors in Attitudes to Immigration

Dustmann, Christian; Preston, Ian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

considered to be competitors for these resources. The question of how attitudes of majority populations towards immigration are … immigration from different minority groups, as well as attitudes towards related concerns, like job security and benefit … expenditures. We specify and estimate a multiple factor model. The correlation between answers to questions on immigration and on …

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