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In this study we evaluate the effects of low-skilled immigration on small businesses, wages and employment in Germany. We develop a search and matching model with heterogeneous workers, cross-skill matching, and endogenous entry into entrepreneurship. The model is calibrated using German...
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In this study we evaluate the effects of low-skilled immigration on small businesses, wages and employment in Germany. We develop a search and matching model with heterogeneous workers, cross-skill matching, and endogenous entry into entrepreneurship. The model is calibrated using German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015338174
The paper investigates the link between the over-exposure of African immigrants to unemployment in France and their …-specific preferences, economy-wide employer discrimination, and customer discrimination in jobs in contact with customers. The outcomes of … the model allow us to build a test of ethnic discrimination in general and customer discrimination in particular. We run …
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differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to … matching, bargaining and employers' taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women … differentials ; discrimination ; search models ; maximum likelihood estimation ; structural estimation ; affirmative action …
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differentials are due to labor market discrimination or to unobserved productivity differences. The objective of this paper is to … matching, bargaining and employers' taste discrimination. In equilibrium all types of employers wage discriminate women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318243
spell at the time of interview and on all previous spells back to one year before is used to construct unemployment duration … data. Unemployment spells are defined as a series of monthly episodes ending up in a transition to job or out of labour … force, or right-censored. For any unemployment spell recorded at the time of interview, the individual is asked to report on …
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unemployment rate and the actual unemployment rate in the country, which is a meaningful indicator of their misperception of labor … model includes: controls for the worker's ability; country-specific fixed effects; the unemployment rate in the region of … residence, which might be the benchmark respondents have in mind when reporting their perception of the national unemployment …
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This paper develops an equilibrium search model to explain gender asymmetry in occupational distribution. Workers' utility depends on salary and working hours, and women have a greater aversion to longer working hours than men. Simulations indicate that women crowd into shorter-hour,...
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groups of workers (natives and immigrants). Moreover, we allow for the possibility of self-employment, endogenous price and …
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growth and job‐to‐job mobility, independent of the job‐offer distribution and other labor‐market parameters. Applying our … differentials-can reconcile our results with the job‐to‐job mobility seen in the data. Regardless of the mechanism, the estimated …
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