Orsa Kekezi (p), Ron Boschma

Dimitris Ballas

One of the empirical regularities in the literature is that displaced workers experience permanent drops in earnings. Loss of specific human capital is often identified as a mechanism to why this is the case. The purpose of this paper is to identify whether the variation in the career paths of displaced workers through changes in location, industry, or occupation, affects their future earnings. Using a multinomial endogenous treatment model to control for the selection bias in migration and industry/occupation change, we compare displaced stayers with displaced movers. Preliminary results show that the only cases when movers are better off than stayers is when they get a job in a related industry and occupation or if their new employment is in a related industry but not occupation, suggesting that migration could be a reaction to mismatches in the labor market.

Paul Berbée (p), Alfred Garloff , Katrin Sommerfeld

Dimitris Ballas

The large recent inflow of asylum seekers to Europe can be considered as a substantive labor demand shock because asylum seekers are banned from working in the first months after arrival. At the same time they require government-provided services like housing, administration and integration courses. We estimate employment growth due to asylum immigration based on a dispersal policy in Germany. Preliminary results confirm significant additional employment growth that is driven by certain immigration-related occupations (security, gastronomy, and business organization). Districts with tight labor markets show significantly smaller additional employment growth as reaction to the inflow, when compared to districts with high unemployment. We hypothesize and find some evidence that occupational mobility plays a more important role in satisfying additional labor demand in tight labor markets. Finally, regional mobility also appears to matter as a response to the labor demand shock.

Jefferson Pereira (p), Adelson Silva, Roberta Rocha

Dimitris Ballas

The main purpose of this study was to identify the contribution of the worker, firm and region's effects, focusing on the density of employment as a measure of agglomeration, on the wage differential in the Brazilian regions in the period from 2010 to 2014. The analysis was made in panel, from RAIS data, which allows the monitoring of the individual over time. Initially, mincerian equations was applied to the OLS models, with analysis focused on the fixed effects results. Afterwards, the regression method was applied by instrumental variables in order to eliminate the possible endogeneity of the employment density. The results indicated that there is a wage differential, although small attributed to the density of employment, accordingly to the literature. It has been found that education, the sector which the worker is inserted, and the size of the firm have a strong influence on wage differentials, especially to, higher level education individuals, workers form the industry sector and those workers of big firms. Finally, it is conclude that the density of employment, characteristics of individuals, firms and region contribute to the existence of wage differentials.