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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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59
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Don
J.
DeVoretz
Samuel
A.
Laryea
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Canadian Immigration Experience: Any Lessons for Europe?
This paper reviews and analyzes the effects of Canada’s post World War II immigration policies with the perspective of what European policy makers can learn from this experience. Impact of ...
(published in: : K.F. Zimmermann (ed.), European Migration - What Do We Know? Oxford University Press, 2005)
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J15 J61 J68
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57
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Ira
N.
Gang
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Is Child like Parent? Educational Attainment and Ethnic Origin
The speed at which immigrants assimilate is the subject of debate. Human capital formation plays a major role in this discussion. This paper compares the educational attainment of second generation ...
(published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2000, 35 (3), 550-569)
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I21 J15 J62
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56
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Assar
Lindbeck
Dennis
J.
Snower
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Centralized Bargaining, Multi-Tasking and Work Incentives
The paper examines the implications for wage bargaining of an important aspect of the ongoing reorganization of work - the move from occupational specialization toward multi-tasking. The analysis ...
(published as 'Centralized bargaining and reorganized work: Are they compatible?' in: European Economic Review, 2001, 45 (10), 1851-1875)
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D23 J24 J31 J51 J53
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55
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Laszlo
Goerke
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Value-added Tax versus Social Security Contributions
In order to alleviate unemployment it is often recommended to reduce social security contributions (SSC) and to compensate for the ensuing loss in revenues by a rise in the value-added tax (VAT). ...
(published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik, 1999, 219 (3/4), 308-325)
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H24 H25 J32 J41
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54
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Magnus
Lofstrom
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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self-Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2002, 15 (1), 83-114)
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J15 J23 J61
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53
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Joop
Hartog
Pedro
T.
Pereira
José
António Cabral
Vieira
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Inter-industry Wage Dispersion in Portugal: high but falling
This paper examines the size of inter-industry wage dispersion in Portugal and compares with other countries. We find that the country has a high inter-industry wage inequality compared with the ...
(published as 'Inter-industry Wage Dispersion in Portugal' in: Empirica, 2000, 27 (4), 353-364)
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J31
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52
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Jochen
Mayer
Regina
T.
Riphahn
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Fertility Assimilation of Immigrants: Evidence from Count Data Models
This study applies count data estimation techniques to investigate the fertility adjustment of immigrants in the destination country. Data on completed fertility are taken from the 1996 wave of the ...
(published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2000, 13 (2), 241-262)
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C25 J13 J61
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51
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Alan
Barrett
Philip
J.
O'Connell
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Does Training Generally Work? The Returns to In-Company Training
This paper applies the familiar theoretical distinction between general and specific training to the empirical task of estimating the returns to in-company training. Using a firm-level dataset which ...
(published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2001, 54 (3), 647-662)
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J24
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50
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Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Ethnic German Migration since 1989 - Results and Perspectives/ Aussiedler seit 1989 - Bilanz und Perspektiven
Among all European countries, Germany absorbs by far the largest number of immigrants. But to date, the German government has yet to adopt a system that will effectively control the influx of ...
(published in: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2000, 1, 225-237)
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J61 J68
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49
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Hans Peter
Grüner
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Unemployment and Labor-Market Reform: A Contract Theoretic Approach
Why do many democracies fail to reform their labor market institutions? We study the feasibility of reforms that include the compensation of the insiders for the removal of labor market regulations. ...
(published in: Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2002, 104 (4), 641-656)
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D70 E61 J68
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13084Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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