Showing 1 - 10 of 41
Since 2002, the British Government department responsible for immigration, the Home Office, has claimed immigrants pay … involves answering a number of subsidiary questions about what can and cannot be debited to immigration. The four main … subsidiary questions are thus. 1. Should the cost of educating immigrants’ children (£7.6bn a year) be attributed to immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616954
We analyze the impact of immigration on the host country within a search and matching model that allows for skill … although immigration raises the overall welfare,it may have distributional effects. Specifically, skilled workers gain in terms … of both employment and wages. Unskilled workers, on the other hand, gain in terms of employment but may lose in terms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009223346
We investigate the effects of US immigration on native workers in a search and matching environment that allows for … unskilled immigration benefits the low-skilled native workers and hurts the high-skilled. On the other hand, new skilled … immigration benefits both skilled and unskilled natives. Moreover, when we simulate the effects of the actual US immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107823
decisions. To assess the impact of immigration, I compare simulated earnings in the presence of immigration with a series of … counterfactual experiments. My findings suggest that immigration has a small negative direct effect on earnings, but a positive and … 60% of the variations in earnings caused by immigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108162
We analyze the impact of the skill-biased immigration influx that took place during the years 2000-2009 in the United … that although the skill-biased immigration raised the overall net income to natives, it may have had distributional effects …. Specifically, unskilled native workers gained in terms of both employment and wages. Skilled native workers, on the other hand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108231
attempts to evaluate the effect of immigration in flow on employment level of natives and reveal whether this effect changes in … imply that protective institutions cover mostly natives and therefore make immigration labor force comparatively less costly …. Labor market protection may therefore amplify a negative effect of immigrants on native employment if it exists.This paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113029
relationship between that misperceptions about immigrants an immigration and discrimination against immigrants in labor market. Our … of an econometric model confirms that misperceptions about the size of immigration and its effects on the country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071618
. Unlike conventional approaches, the present study uses macro data to examine the response of wages to immigration flows. We … use instrumental variable (IV) techniques to deal with the potential endogeneity of immigration. Results from alternative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836784
relationship between that misperceptions about immigrants an immigration and discrimination against immigrants in labor market. Our … of an econometric model confirms that misperceptions about the size of immigration and its effects on the country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260380
Abstract: This paper applies cointegration analysis and Granger non-causality tests in order to identify the direction of causality between migration in Greece and two macroeconomic variables: GDP and unemployment. We use annual data for the 1980-2011 period. The data are drawn from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260398