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Can immigrants ever earn as much as native workers? : immigrants initially earn less than natives; the wage gap falls over time, but for many immigrant groups it never closes

Anderson, Kathryn H. - 2015

Immigrants contribute to the economic development of the host country, but they earn less at entry and it takes many years for them to achieve parity of income. For some immigrant groups, the wage gap never closes. There is a wide variation across countries in the entry wage gap and the speed of...

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The effect of host society culture on migrant wage discrimination : approaching the Roestigraben

Kohler, Pierre - 2012

differences between migrants and natives are larger in the German region. Building on this, the paper begins with a comparison of … show returns to factors of wage-earning migrants are lower in the German region for a preponderant majority of migrant … approach confirm that host society culture is one of the determinants of wage discrimination endured by migrants …

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Chapter 25. Immigrants in Israel

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 1363-1420). 2015

enter the country also expanded in the last decade. While immigration policy legislation towards Jewish migrants was formed … soon after its independence, Israel still lacks a coherent immigration policy towards labor migrants and asylum seekers. …Israel perceives the immigration of Jews as one of its major goals and thus it applies no selection rules towards them …

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The effect of the Hartz labor market reforms on post-unemployment wages, sorting, and matching

Woodcock, Simon D. - 2020

We use linked longitudinal data on employers and employees to estimate how the 2003-2005 Hartz reforms affected the wages of displaced German workers after they returned to work. We also present a simple new method to decompose the wage effects into components attributable to selection on...

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Can wage transparency alleviate gender sorting in the labor market?

Bamieh, Omar; Ziegler, Lennart - 2022

Wage decompositions suggest that a large share of the gender wage gap can be explained by differences in occupation and employer choices. If female workers are not well informed about these pay differences, increasing wage transparency might alleviate the gender gap. We test this hypothesis by...

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The Local Labor Market Effect of Relaxing Internal Migration Restrictions : Evidence from China

An, Lei - 2020

How does a relaxation of migration restrictions affect labor-market outcomes of incumbent migrants? In this paper, we … 228 cities between 2011 and 2017, we estimate the wage effects on migrants. We find that migrants' income in non … migrants who have stayed longer in their current cities. In contrast, the policy change has no impact on the wages of the …

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Doing well in reforming the labour market? : recent trends in job stability and wages in Germany

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Rothe, Thomas - 2013

The German "employment miracle", with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession, seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. Nevertheless, there are concerns about rising inequality in the labour market. In this paper we analyze the...

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Doing well in reforming the labour market? : recent trends in job stability and wages in Germany ; conference paper

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Rothe, Thomas - 2013

The German employment miracle with a weak decline in employment and low unemployment during the great recession seems to be a good example for a successful labour market reform. While the aggregate level of job turnover seems to be stable over time, there are nevertheless concerns about rising...

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The evolution of job stability and wages after the implementation of the Hartz reforms

Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Jaenichen, Ursula; Rothe, Thomas - In: Journal for labour market research 49 (2016) 3, pp. 269-294

We address the concerns about rising inequality in the German labour market after the implementation of the Hartz reforms between 2003 and 2005. We focus on the quality of new jobs started between 1998 and 2010 in West Germany in terms of job stability and level of earnings. Using social...

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The impact of labor market reforms on income inequality : evidence from the German Hartz reforms

Immel, Lea - 2021

In this paper, I study the distributional consequences of the German Hartz reforms, a set of four comprehensive labor market reforms implemented in Germany between 2003 and 2005. I exploit regional variation in the intensity German counties were affected by the reforms to estimate the causal...

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