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Labor Market Challenges In Europe With Respect To The Migrant Crisis, Thomas M. Segerstrom
Labor Market Challenges In Europe With Respect To The Migrant Crisis, Thomas M. Segerstrom
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Advocates and opponents of European refugee policy have disagreed often over the economic impact of new asylum seekers. This paper analyzes characteristic qualities of the European labor market and how they relate to the recent changes in migration from the Middle East and Africa. Within is analysis of the impacts to gross domestic product, unemployment, and the welfare state that the arrival of additional persons to the low-wage market will bring. The paper also argues that a plan to distribute asylum seekers across the European Union is an equitable solution to the issue.
The Effects Of Sexual Orientation On Earnings, Tsz-Ying Yeung
The Effects Of Sexual Orientation On Earnings, Tsz-Ying Yeung
Gettysburg Economic Review
Gay and lesbian topics have received much media attention in recent years. Debates have revolved around issues such as gay marriage, adoption rights, and the legal relationship of children born to a homosexual couple with their nonbiological second parent. Corporations have started to provide partner benefits to gay and lesbian employees. Many companies today have added the words “sexual orientation” to their equal rights hiring policies. Nevertheless, discrimination against homosexual people in the workplace is still widely perceived to exist.
In this paper, I address the question, does earnings discrimination against homosexual and bisexual workers exist in the U.S. labor …