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This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
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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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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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Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent … employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the exception of high-skilled unauthorized immigrants, the data fail to reveal … evidence of improved employment outcomes attributable to legal status. In light of evidence that unauthorized immigrants …
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Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent … employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the exception of high-skilled unauthorized immigrants, the data fail to reveal … evidence of improved employment outcomes attributable to legal status. In light of evidence that unauthorized immigrants …
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In many European countries, labor markets are characterized by high regional disparities in terms of unemployment rates … on the one hand and low geographical mobility among the unemployed on the other hand. This is somewhat surprising and …
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A Trial Introduction Program (TIP) for newly-arrived immigrants to Sweden was implemented from October 2006 to June …, newly-arrived immigrants were randomly assigned into TIP (treatment) or regular introduction programs (control). Results …
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-western immigrants in Denmark who receive social assistance. We use the timing-of-events duration model and rich administrative data. We … other programmes. The effects are larger if programmes begin after six months of unemployment. Implications of our estimates …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
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