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A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but …
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Immigration to the UK has risen in the past 10 years and has had a measurable effect on the supply of different types … of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series …
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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...
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This paper examines the relationship between immigration and crime in a setting where large migration flows offer an … consider possible crime effects from two large waves of immigration that recently occurred in the UK. The first of these was …
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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...
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). This might have consequences for immigration policy – how many immigrants to allow into a country and from what cultural …
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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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market. On balance, the evidence for the UK labour market suggests that fears about the consequences of rising immigration … appear to have been modest. Unfortunately we do not know much about whether the effects of immigration are different in … downturns. We also need to understand more about how capital and sectoral shifts in demand respond to immigration over the …
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In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...
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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 …
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