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in the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-Saharan Africa. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii …This paper uses census and household survey data on Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa to examine immigration's impact …) employment allocation between informal and formal sectors, and (iii) the type of employment within each sector. The direction of …
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation …-experiment is a legal requirement for employers to demand native labor with infinite elasticity at the wage earned by migrants; the … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …
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EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …
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is reduced and sometimes disappears after correcting for selection into employment. In most cases the remaining …
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influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and … weekly earnings of male university-educated immigrants in all three countries concomitant with skilled immigration policy … immigrants. Given that there is increasingly little to distinguish the skilled immigration policies of these countries, we …
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We analyze the impact of the immigration influx that took place during the years 2000-2007 in Greece on labor market … immigrants in production, gain in terms of both wages and employment. The effects on unskilled native workers, who compete with …
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We estimate the causal effect of immigration on unemployment, employment and wages of resident employees in Switzerland …, whose foreign labor force has increased by 32.8% in the last ten years. To address endogeneity of immigration into different … immigration which can be explained by migration push-factors in the source countries. While OLS estimates suggest that immigrants …
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