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Overeducation among immigrants in Sweden: Incidence, wage effects and state-dependence

Andersson Joona, Pernilla; Gupta, Nabanita Datta; … - 2012

The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. In the Swedish context this question is of great policy relevance due to the high levels of refugee migration and inflow of tied movers. Using Swedish register data...

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Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden

Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … rather stable in the years after the crisis in 2008. The main explanation is most likely that the recession in Sweden was … were employed. If the present EMU crisis is spreading to Sweden the result may of course be different. …

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Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden

Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - 2014

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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Minority Unemployment: First Evidence from April 2020 CPS Microdata

Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2020

COVID-19 abruptly impacted the labor market with the unemployment rate jumping to 14.7 percent less than two months after state governments began adopting social distancing measures. Unemployment of this magnitude has not been seen since the Great Depression. This paper provides the first study...

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: Evidence of Early-Stage Losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the number of active small businesses in the United States using...

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Small Business Owners: The First Three Months after Social-Distancing Restrictions

Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020

Social distancing restrictions and health- and economic-driven demand shifts from COVID-19 are expected to shutter many small businesses and entrepreneurial ventures, but there is very little early evidence on impacts. This paper provides the first analysis of impacts of the pandemic on the...

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The Evolving Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Gender Inequality in the U.S. Labor Market: The COVID Motherhood Penalty

Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2021

We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Community College Enrollment and Student Success: Evidence from California Administrative Data

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2022

Although enrollment at California's four-year public universities mostly remained unchanged by the pandemic, the effects were substantial for students at California Community Colleges, the largest higher education system in the country. This paper provides a detailed analysis of how the pandemic...

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The Impact of COVID-19 on Community College Enrollment and Student Success: Evidence from California Administrative Data

Bulman, George; Fairlie, Robert W. - 2022

This paper examines how the pandemic impacted the enrollment patterns, fields of study, and academic outcomes of students in the California Community College System, the largest higher-education system in the country. Enrollment dropped precipitously during the pandemic - the total number of...

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Were Small Businesses More Likely to Permanently Close in the Pandemic?

Fairlie, Robert W.; Fossen, Frank M.; Johnsen, Reid; … - 2022

Previous estimates indicate that COVID-19 led to a large drop in the number of operating businesses operating early in the pandemic, but surprisingly little is known on whether these shutdowns turned into permanent closures and whether small businesses were disproportionately hit. This paper...

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