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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 …We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … as `flexible' as the UK labour market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …
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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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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 … the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is potentially puzzling since there is evidence that changes in the …
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In this paper we construct a simple model of the effects of immigration on the labour market outcomes of natives. In … this model, skilled and unskilled labour are substitutes, immigrants are complementary to the former, and wages are …, there are sufficient conditions for immigration to raise total employment. We then estimate the effects of immigration on …
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In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with changes in average wages and average … compatible with a causal interpretation from immigration to wages and rents of natives. Separating the effects of immigrants on … useful tool to evaluate the impacts of alternative immigration scenarios on U.S. wages and rents. …
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Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host … family immigration in a framework where school quality and student outcomes are determined endogenously. This allows us to …, we can study the eect of immigration on the school system and how school quality may self-reinforce immigrants' and …
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in the population increases patents per capita by 6%. This could be an overestimate of immigration's benefit if immigrant …
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second part we offer a further argument for a potential detrimental effect of immigration: if wages are negotiated at the …One of the most controversial aspects of immigration policy is the impact of foreigners on labour market outcomes of …
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on the migrant’s decision of where to migrate. Moreover, the significance and size of the effects vary according to the …
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data set, LINDA, for the years 1990 to 1996. Both welfare expenditures and immigration increased substantially in Sweden in …This paper analyses differences in welfare utilization between immigrants and natives in Sweden using a large panel … find that immigrants lower their participation rates in welfare with time spent in Sweden. Refugees display substantially …
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