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This paper analyses differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased substantially in Sweden in the 1990's. We find that immigrants use welfare to a...
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imports, and an ambiguous literature on immigration which implies a small overall impact on the wages of the average native …
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This Paper provides a snapshot of the stock of immigrants in Germany using the 1995 wave of the Mikrozensus, with a particular emphasis on distinguishing first- and second-generation migrants. On the basis of this portrait, we draw attention to the empirically most relevant groups of immigrants...
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who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a temporary work visa have a large advantage over natives in wages …
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the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is potentially puzzling since there is evidence that changes in the … supply of educated natives have significant effects on their wages. Using a pooled time series of British crosssectional … micro data on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s, this paper offers a resolution to this puzzle …
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this model, skilled and unskilled labour are substitutes, immigrants are complementary to the former, and wages are … wages and employment of both types of workers across Spanish provinces following the lifting of some restrictions on … on both wages and employment of less-skilled natives. …
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period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …
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