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EU Eastern Enlargement elicited a rise in (temporary) labour market oriented immi-gration to Germany starting in May … distribution; and a permanent positive effect on full-time employment. …
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unemployed away from employment opportunities and thus lowers their employment prospects. The paper discusses the implications of …
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We study the labor demand effect of immigration on local labor markets by exploiting the fact that refugees in Germany … are banned from working in the first few months after arrival. This natural experiment allows isolating a pure immigration …: As the number of recently arrived refugees and thus the demand for locally produced goods increases, local employment …
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achieving national objectives regarding immigration. These changes stem primarily from the belief that skill-based immigrants do … selection policy can facilitate employment outcomes for new arrivals over the medium run. The results indicate that the …
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legalization programs mandated by the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 led to a stronger propensity to settle permanently …
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employment. We estimate a dynamic multinomial logit model, controlling for endogenous initial condition and unobserved …
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other hand, we do not find any effect of immigration on employment, neither in the short nor in the long run. … and employment. The transition of immigrants into a new labor market is a gradual process: the dynamics of this process … for native workers, we expect that the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants? arrival, and …
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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
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, we estimate that increased immigration has a negative and significant effect on natives' employment rates - and that this …Using census data for 1996, 2001 and 2007 we study the labor market effect of immigration to South Africa. The paper … robust to using an instrumental variable estimation strategy. At the national level, we find that increased immigration has a …
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