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immigration, low-skilled unemployment and medium-skilled over-qualification, ii) the polarization effect where both low- and high … migration-induced supply shock of medium-skilled workers decreases the low-skilled unemployment rate because of the endogenous …
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institutions of labor market and remittances on unemployment. In our model, the remittances take the form of insurance against … involuntary unemployment. In this environment, it was shown that remittances sent by the diaspora provide consumption and savings … and increase the amount of national physical capital. Since the rate of unemployment decreases with the size of the …
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We analyze the impact of the skill-biased immigration influx that took place during the years 2000-2009 in the United States, within a search and matching model that allows for skill heterogeneity, differential search cost between immigrants and natives, capital-skill complementarity and...
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We analyze the impact of immigration on the host country within a search and matching model that allows for skill heterogeneity, endogenous skill acquisition, differential search cost between immigrants and natives, capital-skill complementarity and different degree of substitutability between...
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Entwicklungen sein. This work analyzes the effects of the German unemployment insurance system on the unemployment rate and the … individual job-seeking behavior. The duration of the unemployment benefits affects the time spend in unemployment. Another effect … is the span between available jobs and the level of the payments. At the same time, a longer duration of unemployment …
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This paper considers the formation of the urban formal ector wages in the presence of rural migration in a collective bargaining framework. We show in particular that the restoration of full employment in the presence of an informal sector can be implemented through a policy of subsidy depends...
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This paper investigates the macroeconomic and welfare effects of illegal immigration on the native born within a dynamic general equilibrium framework with labor market frictions. A key feature of the model is that job competition is allowed for between domestic workers and illegal immigrants....
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investments, reduced unemployment and increased labor migration. In the paper the system dynamics model, which describes …
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here is that unlike previous studies which find a positive impact of unemployment on return migration, I find that the … direction of the impact of unemployment changes by the spell length. …
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, both retirement and unemployment emerge as important determinants of return migration choices. Unemployment spell length … determines the direction of selection with respect to unemployment in return migration. The data also reveal that the level of …
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