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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
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lagged adjustment processes. In the context of estimated labor market systems for Germany, the UK, and the US, we construct …
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We study the implications of product market competition and investment for price setting, wage bargaining and thereby …
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We use longitudinal individual wage and employment data in France and the United States to investigate the effect of … to the minimum in a reference year as to be illegal in an adjacent comparison year as a result of movements in the real …
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Using the DYMIMIC approach, estimates of the shadow economy in 145 developing, transition, developed OECD countries, South Pacific islands and still communist countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in percent of official GDP) over 2002/2003 in developing countries is...
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We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment … rate in Germany and Denmark, while the wage effects are larger in the UK. Moreover, the elasticity of substitution between …
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individual panel data for Germany and repeated cross-sectional data for the United States and the European Union show that the …
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, investment in education improves job-related learning skills and reduces training costs burdened by firms. Second, firms with … vacant skilled job slots can choose between recruitment from the market and training. Compared to Germany and Japan, the US …
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Not only the level of aggregate unemployment but also the properties of its dynamics are an important topic in macroeconomics and labor economics. Several models like e.g. matching models with endogenous job destruction explicitly predict an asymmetric pattern in the evolution of unemployment,...
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