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Virtues of SIN: Effects of an immigrant workplace introduction program

Åslund, Olof; Johansson, Per - 2006

estimate the effects of the program. The results suggest that the program increased transitions from unemployment to work …

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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community: From the Eyes of Natives

Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-su - 2002

This paper examines whether a greater concentration of foreigners increases the likelihood of unemployment in local …

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Public housing and unemployment: Skills and spatial mismatch in postindustrial Hong Kong

Monkkonen, Paavo - 2011

to the higher rates of unemployment often observed among public housing tenants. However, recent evidence from Europe and … and large positive impact on the probability of being unemployed. Yet, a high rate of unemployment among public housing …

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The threat effect of participation in active labor market programs on job search behavior of migrants in Germany

Bergemann, Annette; Caliendo, Marco; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2011

Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...

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Do co-ethnic commuters disseminate labor market information? Evidence from geocoded register data

Klaesson, Johan; Öner, Özge; Pennerstorfer, Dieter - 2023

This article provides causal evidence of the significant role ethnic networks play in facilitating labor market integration by reducing information frictions. Using full population geocoded employer-employee matched Swedish register data, we investigate how co-ethnic commuters can influence the...

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Matching frictions and distorted beliefs: Evidence from a job fair experiment

Abebe, Girum; Caria, Stefano A.; Fafchamps, Marcel; … - 2023

We evaluate the impacts of a randomized job-fair intervention in which jobseekers and employers can meet at low cost. The intervention generates few hires, but it lowers participants' expectations and causes both firms and workers to invest more in search as predicted by a theoretical model;...

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Employment, mobility, and active labor market programs

Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - 2003

Using a unique micro panel data set we investigate whether active labor market programs improve employment prospects and increase mobility in the longer run. We consider two prototype programs: job creation programs and training programs. We find that both programs reduce the chances of finding...

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Employment, Mobility, and Active Labor Market Programs

Fredriksson, Peter; Johansson, Per - 2003

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Migrants, ethnicity and strategic assimilation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2006

Ethnic networks are a way of overcoming informal barriers to trade such as information costs, risk, and uncertainty by building trust and by substituting for the difficulty of enforcing contracts internationally. We study networks which emerge from the interaction (i) between migrants and...

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Remittances and Inequality: A Dynamic Migration Model

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2003

We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … model is that we take into account the impact of migration on the local (rural) labor market. Migration is shown to decrease …

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