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First fired, first hired? Business cycles and immigrant labor market transitions

Xu, Huanan - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 19, pp. 1-36

monthly transitions among employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. Immigrants are found to be first fired and first … hired over the business cycle, and the aggregate unemployment gap is caused by immigrants' higher rates in the unemployment …

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Considering the benefits of hosting refugees: Evidence of refugee camps influencing local labour market activity and economic welfare in Rwanda

Loschmann, Craig; Bilgili, Özge; Siegel, Melissa - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 9 (2019) 5, pp. 1-23

This paper examines the influence of Congolese refugees on host communities in Rwanda, with a focus on labour market activity and economic welfare. The analysis takes advantage of newly collected survey data from three refugee camps and their surrounding areas to compare individuals and...

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Migration, cultural identity and diasporas: An identity economics approach

Prinz, Aloys; Siegel, Melissa - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 10 (2019) 1, pp. 1-20

Besides effects on economic well-being, migration of people with distant cultural backgrounds may also have large effects on people's cultural identity. In this paper, the identity economics of Akerlof and Kranton (2000) is applied to migration. Accordingly, it is assumed that the utility of...

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Comparing retrospective and panel data collection methods to assess labor market dynamics

Assaad, Ragui; Krafft, Caroline; Yassin, Shaimaa; … - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 8 (2018) 17, pp. 1-34

whether retrospective data can provide accurate trends of labor market aggregates, such as unemployment rates. We find that it …

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Measuring links between labor monopsony and the gender pay gap in Brazil

Vick, Brandon - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 10, pp. 1-28

This paper focuses on gender differences in job mobility and earnings for workers in Brazil. Monopsony theory suggests a link between the wage elasticity of labor supply and wage penalties. Should one group of workers be less elastic in their supply choices, that group is predicted to earn less...

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Informal work along the business cycle: Evidence from Argentina

Albertini, Julien; Poirier, Arthur; Sopraseuth, Thepthida - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-16

employment, informal employment, unemployment, and nonparticipation. We compute the contribution of each transition rate to … fluctuations in unemployment and informality rates. We identify five stylized facts: (i) Nearly 40% of the fluctuations in the … unemployment rate involves unemployment ins and outs from/to informal jobs. (ii) More than 40% of the fluctuations in informality …

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Refugees welcome, but not in my backyard? The impact of immigration on right-wing voting : evidence from Germany

Jasny, Johannes; Becker, Tilman - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 11 (2020) 1, pp. 1-20

This article studies whether immigration in voter's neighborhoods is a driving factor of the rise of Germany's major right-wing party Alternative fuer Deutschland (AFD) and the decline of Angela Merkel's center ruling party the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). We use the 2015 refugee crisis as...

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