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Trends in the returns to social assimilation : earnings premiums among U.S. immigrants that marry natives
Furtado, Delia; Song, Tao - 2014
Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants …
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Migrants from a different shore : earnings and economic assimilation of immigrants from China in the United States
Fang, Tony; Hsu, Mei; Lin, Carl - 2024
Using data from 1980, 1990, and 2000 U.S. censuses, as well as the 2010 and 2019 American Community Surveys and the 1993-2019 National Survey of College Graduates, we investigate the performance of Chinese immigrants in the U.S. labor market over the past 40 years since China initiated its...
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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
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Moving up the social ladder? : wages of first- and second-generation immigrants from developing countries
Pineda-Hernández, Kevin; Rycx, François; Volral, Mélanie - 2022
As immigrants born in developing countries and their descendants represent a growing share of the working-age population in the developed world, their labour market integration constitutes a key factor for fostering economic development and social cohesion. Using a granular, matched...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470617
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Limits to Wage Growth : Understanding the Wage Divergence between Immigrants and Natives
Jain, Apoorva - 2017
This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation by modeling the differences in the efficiency of human...
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Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016
Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - 2021
This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985- 2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted...
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Earnings dynamics of immigrants and natives in Sweden 1985-2016
Friedrich, Benjamin; Laun, Lisa; Meghir, Costas - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 13 (2022) 4, pp. 1803-1847
This paper analyzes earnings inequality and earnings dynamics in Sweden over 1985-2016. The deep recession in the early 1990s marks a historic turning point with a massive increase in earnings inequality and earnings volatility, and the impact of the recession and the recovery from it lasted for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014306326
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Immigration : How Does It Impact the Wages of Native Workers?
Gana, Rajaram - 2018
indicate that immigration differentially impacts native worker wages across skill sets. In particular, for a 10% increase in …I have worried about the talk, in recent times, that immigrants hurt the wages of native workers in the host nation. If … to experiment with a classic dataset on immigrants and native worker wages, which was assembled about 15 years ago. At …
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Does immigration affect native wages? : a meta-analysis
Nedoncelle, Clément; Marchal, Léa; Aubry, Amandine; … - 2024
The impact of immigration on native workers' wages has been a topic of long-standing debate. This meta-analysis reviews … effect of immigration. The results confirm that immigration has a negligible effect on native wages. However, a more …
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Migration and the Wage Curve : A Structural Approach to Measure the Wage and Employment Effects of Migration
Brücker, Herbert; Jahn, Elke J. - 2021
through immigration increases the aggregate unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage points and reduces average wages by … the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the … less 0.1 percent. While native workers benefit from increased wages and lower unemployment, foreign workers are adversely …
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