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This study aims at investigating the nature of the causal relationship between immigration and two macroeconomic … causality between immigration and GDP per capita. However, results do not support the hypothesis that immigration causes … unemployment. On the contrary, evidence suggests that unemployment causes immigration. …
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developed countries more and more reliant on guest workers and migrants, many people in the rich world are still unconvinced … about the necessity and long-term benefits of immigration, partly because these benefits are difficult to measure and do not … necessarily apply to everybody. In fact, the popular belief is that immigration fuels unemployment and slows down economic growth …
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educational level. Our findings show that while they were mainly unemployed prior to immigration, no significant differences in …
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Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
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Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as … such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on …, namely that in the UK natives and foreign born workers are imperfect substitutes. We show that immigration has primarily …
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This Paper analyses the labour mobility and human capital accumulation of male immigrants who moved from the former Soviet Union to Israel. We formulate an estimable dynamic choice model for employment and training in blue and white-collar occupations, where the labour market randomly offered...
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immigration for natives' labour market outcomes, as well as issues linked to immigrants' integration in the host … to immigration.<P>Les migrations dans les pays de l'OCDE : Impact sur le marché du travail et intégration<BR>Les pays de … marché du travail ont un rôle important à jouer afin de favoriser les ajustements économiques associés à l'immigration. …
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This working paper assesses the ease of immigrants' integration in OECD labour markets by estimating how an immigration …
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This paper assesses the consequences of immigration for natives' unemployment in OECD countries and investigates the … role played by product and labour market policies in the economy's adjustment to immigration inflows. The estimations … magnitude.<P>L'impact de l'immigration sur le chômage dans les pays de l'OCDE<BR>Ce document de travail évalue les conséquences …
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