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Labor Market Transparency
Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....
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Immigration and Wage Dynamics: Evidence from the Mexican Peso Crisis
Monras, Joan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
-skilled labor force increase and native low-skilled wages decrease, with an implied local labor demand elasticity of -.7. Internal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212572
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The Dynamic Impact of Immigration on Natives' Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from Israel
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Paserman, M. Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
outcomes. Specifically, we attempt to distinguish between the short-run and long-run effects of immigrants on natives’ wages … alternative hypotheses using data from Israel’s Labor Force and Income Surveys from 1989 to 1999. We find that wages of both men … segment. A 10 percent increase in the share of immigrants lowers natives’ wages in the short run by 1 to 3 percent, but this …
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Dual Citizenship Rights: Do They Make More and Better Citizens?
Mazzolari, Francesca - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In the 1990s, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Costa Rica and Brazil passed dual citizenship laws granting their expatriates the right to naturalize in the receiving country without losing their nationality of origin. I estimate the effects of these new laws on naturalization rates and...
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Economic Shocks and Internal Migration
Monras, Joan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
conclude that internal migration might help to alleviate up to one third of the effects of the crisis on wages in the most …
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Mass Migration to Israel and Natives’ Transitions from Employment
Cohen-Goldner, Sarit; Paserman, M. Daniele - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper studies the impact of mass migration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives’ probability of moving from employment to non-employment in a segmented labor market that is defined by various combinations of schooling, occupation, industry, district of residence and...
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Returning Home at Times of Trouble? Return Migration of EU Enlargement Migrants during the Crisis
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The eastern enlargements of the EU in 2004 and 2007 have stimulated the mobility of workers from the new EU8 and EU2 countries. A significant proportion of these migrants stayed abroad only temporarily, and the Great recession may have triggered return intentions. However, a return may be...
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Evidence on Policies to Increase the Development Impacts of International Migration
McKenzie, David; Yang, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
for migrants like high minimum wages. Nevertheless, we find the evidence base to be weak for many policies, with no …
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Recovering the Counterfactual Wage Distribution with Selective Return Migration
Biavaschi, Costanza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper explores the distribution of immigrant wages in the absence of return migration from the host country. In …
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Fifty Years of Compositional Changes in U.S. Out-Migration, 1908-1957
Biavaschi, Costanza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Immigration authorities have seldom collected data on the out-migration of the foreign-born. As a consequence, several indirect approaches have been proposed to measure and study out-migration. This paper adds to the literature by using official statistics that directly identify the...
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