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From Parent to Child: Early Labor Market Experiences of Second-Generation Immigrants in the Netherlands

van Ours, Jan C.; Veenman, Justus - 2002

This paper is on the early labor market experiences of second-generation immigrants in the Netherlands. We find that only for employment rates there are some differences a cross ethnic groups. Conditional on having a job there is hardly any difference in wages and other job characteristics...

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Labor market outcomes of immigrants and non-citizens in the EU: an East-West comparison

Kahanec, Martin; Zaiceva, Anzelika - 2008

The starkly different histories and institutions in the eastern and western member states of the European Union (EU … importance in the western EU member states, both immigrant status and citizenship matter in the eastern EU member states, their … the relationships between being non-citizen and labor market outcomes that we find in the eastern EU member states. …

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From the shortage of jobs to the shortage of skilled workers: labor markets in the EU new member states

Rutkowski, Jan - 2007

climate and access to global markets associated with the EU accession. For a long time enterprises in transition economies …

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A labor market approach to the crisis of health care professionals in Africa

Andalón, Mabel; Fields, Gary - 2011

This paper adopts a labor market economics perspective to understanding the crisis of health care professionals in Africa. Five challenges resulting from this crisis are identified: a production challenge, an underutilization challenge, a distributional challenge, a performance challenge, and a...

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Spatial versus social mismatch: The strength of weak ties

Zenou, Yves - 2011

The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers' labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter's idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...

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Air Pollution and the Labor Market: Evidence from Wildfire Smoke

Borgschulte, Mark; Molitor, David; Zou, Eric Yongchen - 2022

We study how air pollution impacts the U.S. labor market by analyzing effects of drifting wildfire smoke that can affect populations far from the fires themselves. We link satellite smoke plume with labor market outcomes to estimate that an additional day of smoke exposure reduces quarterly...

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Rise of the Indian Middle Class and Its Impact on the Labor Market

Eggimann, Andres; Kendzia, Michael J. - 2022

The world is changing its socio-economic landscape. By doing so, the phenomenon of a growing middle-class appears. Both household surveys and growth projections suggest that only about one-third of the global middle class is based in Asia. However, between 2009 and 2017, the global middle-class...

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Is International Trade Always Beneficial to Labor Markets? A Case Study from Egypt

Robertson, Raymond; Vergara Bahena, Mexico Alberto; … - 2022

Egypt's industries heavily rely on imported goods for production. Thus, an increase in imports could have a potentially positive effect on the labor market as it means more inputs for the production of exporting goods. Alternatively, minimal backward linkages in global value chains (GVCs) could...

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Exports and Labor Demand: Evidence from Egyptian Firm-Level Data

Berg, Claudia N.; Robertson, Raymond; Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys - 2022

Unlike many countries, Egypt did not experience significant labor market improvements following trade liberalization. In this paper, we build upon the earlier work of Robertson et al. (2021) to investigate why increased Egyptian exports did not directly increase employment. To illustrate the...

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Recession and Deflation?

Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - 2022

Central bankers are raising interest rates on the assumption that wage-push inflation may lead to stagflation. This is not the case. Although unemployment is low, the labor market is not 'tight'. On the contrary, we show that what matters for wage growth are the non-employment rate and the...

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