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Fiscal and Migration Competition
Razin, Assaf - 2010
It is often argued that tax competition may lead to a "race to the bottom". Such a race may hold indeed in the case of the pure case of factor mobility (such as capital mobility). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may nullify the "race to the bottom"...
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Goods and Factor Market Integration : A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2017
The economic effects from labor market integration are crucially affected by the extent to which countries are open to trade. In this paper we build a multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model with trade in goods and labor mobility across countries to study and quantify the economic...
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Open Borders in the European Union and Beyond : Migration Flows and Labor Market Implications
Kennan, John - 2017
In 2004, the European Union admitted 10 new countries, and wages in these countries were generally well below the levels in the existing member countries. Citizens of these newly-admitted countries were subsequently free to take jobs anywhere in the EU, and many did so. In 2015, a large number...
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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows
Horton, John - 2017
Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, their ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455283
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Employer Policies and the Immigrant-Native Earnings Gap
Dostie, Benoit - 2020
We use longitudinal data from the income tax system to study the impacts of firms' employment and wage-setting policies on the level and change in immigrant-native wage differences in Canada. We focus on immigrants who arrived in the early 2000s, distinguishing between those with and without a...
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Do Employers Prefer Migrant Workers? Evidence from a Chinese Job Board
Kuhn, Peter - 2015
residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board. We find that these employers prefer migrant … local workers into formal search for unskilled private sector jobs, efficiency wage effects related to unskilled migrants …' limited access to the urban social safety net, and intertemporal labor and effort substitution by temporary migrants that …
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Monopsony, Efficiency, and the Regularization of Undocumented Immigrants
Borjas, George J.; Edo, Anthony - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
In May 1981, President François Mitterrand regularized the status of undocumented immigrant workers in France. The newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers have monopsony power over undocumented workers because...
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The Self-Employment Experience of Immigrants
Borjas, George J. - 1986
Self-employment is an important aspect of the immigrant experience in the labor market. Self-employment rates for immigrants exceed 15 percent for some national groups. This paper addresses three related questions on the self-employment experience of immigrants. First, how do self-employment...
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From Immigrants to Robots : The Changing Locus of Substitutes for Workers
Borjas, George J. - 2019
Increased use of robots has roused concern about how robots and other new technologies change the world of work. Using numbers of robots shipped to primarily manufacturing industries as a supply shock to an industry labor market, we estimate that an additional robot reduces employment and wages...
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The Economic Assimilation of Irish Famine Migrants to the United States
Collins, William J. - 2018
decline in the observable human capital of famine-era Irish migrants compared to pre-famine Irish migrants and to other groups …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480938