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to estimate how changes in the supply of immigrant workers affected natives' wages in the US. We begin by extending the … passes validity tests and has reasonably strong power. Second, we provide estimates of the impact of immigration on the … of natives in response to immigrants. Using these estimates, we calculate that immigration, thanks to native …
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period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … 'flexible' as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration …
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This paper analyzes effects of population aging on the labor market and determines their broad implications for public policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper argues that, alongside the amply discussed,...
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workers with no schooling degree in California were foreign-born in 2004. If immigration harms the labor opportunities of … imperfectly substitutable in production and we exploit differences in immigration across these groups to infer their impact on US … 2004 immigration did not produce a negative migratory response from natives. To the contrary, as immigrants were imperfect …
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In this paper, we document the importance of high-skilled immigration for U.S. employment in STEM fields. To begin, we …
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inflow was constituted of highly-educated workers and it was associated with an increase in wages for highly-educated Swiss …, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge …
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Although economic theory predicts an inverse relation between relative wages and immigration-induced supply shifts, it … wages in specific labor markets, little variation remains in the immigrant share. We find significant sampling error in this … increase existing estimates of the wage impact of immigration …
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We show that increasing the probability of obtaining a job offer through a network should raise the observed wages of …
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The theory of factor demand has important implications for the study of the impact of immigration on wages. This paper … theory can be used to check the plausibility of the many contradictory claims that appear throughout the immigration …
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This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … evaluate the competition as well as cross-skill complementary effects of immigrants on wages. We also emphasize the importance … account for the short run and long run adjustment of capital in response to immigration. Using our estimates and Census data …
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