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This paper analyzes the effect of immigration on wages taking into account human capital and labor supply adjustments … adjustments that mitigate the effect of immigration on wages. These adjustments include career switches, labor market detachment …
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This paper estimates the effect of immigration on native wages at the national level taking into account the endogenous … estimated OLS wage elasticities to immigration. Sub-Sample 2SLS estimates average – 1:2 and are very stable to the use of …
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Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging effects on the educational systems of … model of family immigration in a frame- work where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This … selection. Also, we can study the effect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self …
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This paper analyzes the political economy of immigration when the salient electoral issue is the level of immigrants … and the relevant immigration policy is the expenditure in immigration control. We consider that immigration affects voters … endogenously determined at equilibrium. At equilibrium, parties propose different levels of immigration, located to the left and to …
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Structural unemployment is due to mismatch between available jobs and workers. We formalize this concept in a simple model of a segmented labor market with search frictions within segments. Worker mobility, job mobility and wage bargaining costs across segments generate structural unemployment....
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This study aims at analyzing the determinants of FDI (foreign direct investment) inflows for a group of European regions. The originality of this approach lies in the use of disaggregated regional data. First, we develop a qualitative description of our database and discuss the importance of the...
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This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential introduction of private television throughout the country and the variation in signal reception due to topography to estimate the causal effect of media exposure. Our estimates reveal...
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its severe dual labor market, and an unprecedented immigration boom, Spain presents a quite unique experience to analyze …
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The productive characteristics of migrating individuals, emigrant selection, affect welfare. The empirical estimation of the degree of selection suffers from a lack of complete and nationally representative data. This paper uses a new and better dataset to address both issues: the ENET (Mexican...
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This paper examines the extent to which Mexican emigrants to the United States are negatively selected, that is, have lower skills than individuals who remain in Mexico. Previous studies have been limited by the lack of nationally representative longitudinal data. This one uses a newly available...
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