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The Impact of Immigration on the Local Labor Market Outcomes of Blue Collar Workers: Panel Data Evidence
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015
Using a large administrative French panel data set for 1976-2007, we examine how low- educated immigration affects the …-educated immigrants. We first show that larger immigration inflows into locations are accompanied by larger outflows of negatively … substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much …
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Immigration and the Occupational Choice of Natives: A Factor Proportions Approach
Ortega, Javier; Verdugo, Gregory - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 … immigrant share across education/experience cells and over time to identify the impact of immigration. In the Borjas (2003 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the …
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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
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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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The Careers of Immigrants
Matos, Ana Damas de - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
I use a unique linked employer employee panel covering all wage earners in the private sector in Portugal to shed new light on the careers of immigrants. During the first ten years in the country immigrants close one third of the initial immigrant-native wage gap. I show that one third of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583789
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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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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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Immigrant Enclaves and Crime
Bell, Brian; Machin, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011
There is conflicting evidence on the consequences of immigrant neighbourhood segregation for individual outcomes, with various studies finding positive, negative or insubstantial effects. In this paper, we document the evolution of immigrant segregation in England over the last 40 years. We show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009386560
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What Happens When Employers are Free to Discriminate? Evidence from the English Barclays Premier Fantasy Football League
Bryson, Alex; Chevalier, Arnaud - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Research on employers' hiring discrimination is limited by the unlawfulness of such activity. Consequently, researchers have focused on the intention to hire. Instead, we rely on a virtual labour market, the Fantasy Football Premier League, where employers can freely exercise their taste for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010795538