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Receiving Countries' Perspectives: The Case of Sweden
Gerdes, Christer; Wadensjö, Eskil - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … immigration. The labour immigration expanded for example after the enlargement in 2004 but not so much as in for example the … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …
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Ethnic Identity and Work
Constant, Amelie F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Immigrants do not fare as well as natives in economic terms; even after including many controls, an unexplained part remains. The ethnic identity entered the field of labor and migration economics in an effort to better explain the economic outcomes of immigrants, their behavior and their often...
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Mind the Gap: A Detailed Picture of the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap in the UK Using Longitudinal Data Between 1978 and 2006
Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
primarily rewards individual characteristics other than immigration status. We also found that the lowest paid immigrants, whom … proportionately larger non-white and lower paid white immigration. …
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Measuring Immigration's Effects on Labor Demand: A Reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift
Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Lewer, Joshua J.; Berg, Hendrik F. … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
It is now well known that exogenous immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native employment outcomes … the effects of an immigration shock on labor demand by testing a general equilibrium model in which imperfectly … substitutable native and immigrant workers spend their wages on a locally produced good. The shock induces three responses: (i) a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703352
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The Portability of Human Capital and Immigrant Assimilation: Evidence for Spain
Sanromá, Esteve; Ramos, Raul; Simón, Hipólito - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
The existing literature on immigrant assimilation has highlighted the imperfect portability of human capital acquired by immigrants in their country of origin (Chiswick, 1978; Friedberg, 2000). This would explain the low levels of assimilation upon arrival in the new country, as well as the wide...
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A Note on the Redistributive Effect of Immigration
Euwals, Rob; Roodenburg, Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated … level is called the ‘immigration surplus’, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the … the immigration surplus. …
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The Impact of Immigration on the Structure of Male Wages: Theory and Evidence from Britain
Manacorda, Marco; Manning, Alan; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
substitutes, so that an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled … wages of native-born workers, but that the only sizeable effect of increased immigration is on the wages of those immigrants …the wages of native-born workers in the UK have failed to find any significant effect. This is something of a puzzle …
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Estimating the Impact of Immigration on Wages in Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … assess whether the average wages of natives across skill cells is affected by the share of immigrants across cells. When the … cells are based on education/experience, our results suggest a negative relationship between native wages and immigrant …
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Which Immigrants Are Most Innovative and Entrepreneurial? Distinctions by Entry Visa
Hunt, Jennifer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a temporary work visa have a large advantage over natives in wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008522419
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Immigrant Wages in the Spanish Labour Market: Does the Origin of Human Capital Matter?
Sanromá, Esteve; Ramos, Raul; Simón, Hipólito - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
countries and in Spain. It also examines the impact on wages of the legal status. The evidence shows that returns to host …
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