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Naturalization and Employment of Immigrants in France (1968-1999)
Fougère, Denis; Safi, Mirna - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
Our study examines the empirical link between the naturalization of immigrants and their subsequent employment status … particularly true for groups of immigrants who have a low probability of employment in the host country. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005667052
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A Macroeconomic Experiment in Mass Immigration
Hercowitz, Zvi; Yashiv, Eran - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
This Paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the … for native employment and the relative price of domestic goods – is estimated, finding negative effects of immigration on … native employment a year after arrival. The delay in the effect is attributed to a positive impact of immigration on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791219
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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's
D Amuri, Francesco; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Peri, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the … employment levels. It had instead adverse employment and wage effects on previous waves of immigrants. This stems from the fact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792043
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EU Enlargement under Continued Mobility Restrictions: Consequences for the German Labor Market
Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004979473
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Wage Bargaining Structure, Employment and Economic Integration
Danthine, Jean-Pierre; Hunt, Jennifer - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992
It is widely believed that the integration of European economies will have little impact on labour mobility. This does not mean, however, that European labour markets will be unaffected by the process of economic integration. In this paper we show that with increased competition from closer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656215
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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
-savings" effect they may leave unaffected, or even increase, total native employment of less skilled workers. Our model also predicts … positive net effect on native employment while offshoring has no effect on it. We also find some evidence that offshoring has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680751
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Citizenship and Employment – comparing two cool countries
Bevelander, Pieter; Pendakur, Ravi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
immigrants arriving from non-western countries. The aim of this paper is to explore the link between citizenship and employment … on employment probabilities in both Canada and Sweden. The size of the co-ethnic population has a positive impact for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008874618
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Taxation and the International Mobility of Inventors
Akcigit, Ufuk; Baslandze, Salomé; Stantcheva, Stefanie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar" inventors, those with the most and most valuable patents. We use panel data on inventors from the United States and European Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272707
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How local are labor markets? Evidence from a spatial job search model
Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper uses data on very small UK geographies to investigate the effective size of local labor markets. Our approach treats geographic space as continuous, as opposed to a collection of non-overlapping administrative units, thus avoiding problems of mismeasurement of local labor markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364999
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Immigration and the School System
Albornoz-Crespo, Facundo; Cabrales, Antonio; Hauk, Esther - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Immigration is an important problem in many societies, and it has wide-ranging eects on the educational systems of host countries. There is a now a large empirical literature, but very little theoretical work on this topic. We introduce a model of family immigration in a framework where school...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365649