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change the wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little … immigration. We document the importance of this selection bias in the French labor market, where women accounted for a rapidly … impact on the employment rate of men, but led to a sizable drop in the male wage. We show that the near-zero correlation …
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In the 1980s, the wages and employment rates of less-skilled Americans fell relative to those of more-skilled workers … imports in the U.S. economy to these trends. Our empirical evidence indicates that both trade and immigration augmented the … immigration increased the effective supply of high school dropouts by 28 percent for men and 31 percent for women. We estimate …
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How does immigration affect labor market opportunities in a receiving country? This paper contributes to the voluminous … use the Help-Wanted Index (HWI) to document how immigration changes the number of job vacancies in the affected labor … in the HWI with immigration across metropolitan areas. These correlations consistently indicate that more immigration is …
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market impact of immigration. My recent reappraisal (Borjas, 2015) revealed that even the most cursory reexamination implied …
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can move the market closer to the efficient competitive equilibrium and potentially increase employment and wages for both … program particularly increased employment and wages for low-skill native and immigrant men, and raised French GDP by over 1 …
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