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survey data of a representative inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, we empirically test the hypothesis that …
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natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …
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This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …
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We study both the various consequences and the incentives of outsourcing. We argue thatthe wage elasticity of labour demand is increasing as a function of the share of outsourcing,which is importantly a result consistent with existing empirical research...
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unemployment. Finally, we characterize the optimal production mode and show that stronger labour market imperfections lead to a …
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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …
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This paper sheds light on the labor market situation of ethnic minorities in the European Union. Facing a serious measurement challenge and lacking adequate data, we apply several measures of ethnicity and examine various data sources as well as secondary evidence. We find significant gaps...
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This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host …-2005 for 22 OECD countries, we find that, only in Portugal, unemployment negatively causes immigration, while in any country …, immigration does not cause unemployment. We also find that, in France, Iceland, Norway and United Kingdom, growth positively …
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impact on aggregate unemployment, native- and foreign-born unemployment rates). We also find that migration is influenced by … host economic conditions (migration responds positively to host GDP per capita and negatively to host total unemployment …
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bargaining, minimum wages, employment protection and unemployment benefits affect the way in which wages respond to labor supply … decline with the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. We find that wage flexibility is substantially higher in the UK … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …
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