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A Meta-Analytic Assessment of the Effect of Immigration on Wages

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

In our increasingly interconnected and open world, international migration is becoming an important socio …

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The labor market impact of immigration in Western Germany in the 1990's

D'Amuri, Francesco; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, … - Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI) - 2008

We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial...

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Rethinking the effects of immigration on wages

Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Peri, Giovanni - Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI) - 2007

This paper asks the following important question: what was the effect of surging immigration on average and individual wages of U.S.-born workers during the period 1990-2004? Building on section VI I of Borjas (2003) we emphasize the need for a general equilibrium approach to analyze this...

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The Rationality behind Immigration Preferences

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004

What drives stated preferences about the number of foreigners? Is it self-interest as stressed by the political economy of immigration? Does social interaction affect this preference or is the immigration preference completely in line with the preference for the aggregate population size? In...

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The Fallacy of “Job Robbing”: A Meta-Analysis of Estimates of the Effect of Immigration on Employment

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006

Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to political pressure to limit a further influx of foreign-born persons on the grounds that the absorption capacity of host countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened....

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The Economic Impact of Immigration on the Labor Market of Host Countries - Meta-Analytic Evidence

Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

The number of immigrants across the world has doubled since 1980. The estimates of the impact of immigration on wages and employment in host countries are quantitatively small but vary widely. We use meta-regression analysis to show how the estimates vary with definitions of the labor market,...

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Turkey, migration and the EU: Potentials, challenges and opportunities

Paçacı Elitok, Seçil (contributor); … - Hamburgisches WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI)

In the context of Turkey's accession to the EU, the issue of potential migration from Turkey and its impact upon … 2011, half a century after the bi-lateral agreement between Turkey and Germany on labor recruitment in 1961, migration … effects of Turkey's accession to the EU upon the migration flows and sheds light on various dimensions of current panorama …

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