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Immigration, Diversity and the Labour Market Outcomes of Native Workers: Some Recent Developments
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers' labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses …: the distinction between the displacement, productivity and amenity effects of immigration; the issues that arise in using … wage changes to identify those effects; and the problem of assessing a causal link from immigration to natives' labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884901
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Change and Continuity Among Minority Communities in Britain
Georgiadis, Andreas; Manning, Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
There is widespread concern currently that some ethnic minority communities within Britain, especially Muslim, are not following the stereotypical immigrant path of economic and cultural assimilation into British society. Indeed, many seem to have the impression that differences between Muslims...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670510
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On the Relative Gains to Immigration: A Comparison of the Labour Market Position of Indians in the USA, the UK and India
Wadsworth, Jonathan; Coulon, Augustin de - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008
While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual's ranking in the wage distribution, may also be important. This will in turn be influenced by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150995
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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni; Wright, Greg C. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
How do offshoring and immigration affect the employment of native workers? What kinds of jobs suffer, or benefit, most … looked at the effects of offshoring and immigration separately, we argue that one can gain useful insights by jointly …. Third, we use the model to draw systematic predictions about the effects of immigration and offshoring on native workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550423
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Is the Medical Brain Drain Beneficial? Evidence from Overseas Doctors in the UK
Commander, Simon; Kangasniemi, Mari; Winters, L. Alan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
The ¿beneficial brain drain¿ hypothesis suggests that skilled migration can be good for a sending countrybecause the incentives it creates for training increase that country¿s supply of skilled labour. To work, thishypothesis requires that the degree of screening of migrants by the host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005796093
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Self-Selection and the Performance of Return Migrants: the Source Country Perspective.
Piracha, Matloob; Coulon, Augustin de - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003
more than twice the wages of return migrants. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005510433
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Crime and Immigration: New Evidence from England and Wales
Jaitman, Laura; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We study a high profile public policy question on immigration, namely the link between crime and immigration …, presenting new evidence from England and Wales in the 2000s. For studying immigration impacts, this period is of considerable … European Union in 2004. As we show, this has important implications for ensuring a causal impact of immigration can be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010691381
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Immigrant's access to social housing: perception and reality
Manning, Alan; Battiston, Diego; Dickens, Richard; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Although most UK immigrants are likely to be eligible to apply for social housing, there is no evidence that they have preferential access - if anything the reverse seems to have been the case. But it does seem that there is less discrimination against immigrants and ethnic minorities now than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765684
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In brief: Mother tongue:the economics of language learning
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
Javier Ortega and Gregory Verdugo look at the drivers of language assimilation in the English- and French-majority cities in Canada.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010571388
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Assimilation in Multilingual Cities
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
Using the Public Use Microdata Files of the 2001 and 2006 Canadian Censuses, we study the determinants of the assimilation of language minorities into the city majority language. We show that official minority members (i.e. francophones in English-speaking cities and anglophones in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399381