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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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The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority … immigrants. Using unique German survey data, the paper identifies marked gender differences in the effects of ethnic …
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Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor …
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, mechanically changing the average native wage in affected markets and biasing the estimated wage impact of immigration. We document … wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on … immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages. Adjusting …
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. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey, we find that, on average, immigration leads to a reallocation …This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work health risks … important differences across skill groups. Immigration reduces the average physical burden of UK-born workers with medium levels …
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positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration … because immigration policy often regulates access to specific occupations. …
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In this paper, we study the effects of immigration on natives' marriage, fertility, and family formation across US … aggregate migration flows, we find that immigration raised marriage rates, the probability of having children, and the … positive impact of immigration on native men's employment and occupational standing, which increased the supply of …
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Despite being one of the most prolific spenders on active labour market policies, and investing heavily in civic integration programmes, family policies and career and diversity plans, the native-migrant employment gap in Belgium is still one of the largest among EU and OECD countries. Past...
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immigration on business dynamics and employment by combining U.S. data on immigrant inflows from the Current Population Survey …Immigration, like any positive labor supply shock, should increase the return to capital and spur business investment … immigrant inflows. Despite this clear prediction, there is sparse empirical evidence on the effect of immigration on business …
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This paper provides the first evidence on the regional impact of immigration on native employment in a cross …-run estimates show adverse employment effects in response to immigration, while these effects disappear in the longer run. Second …, low-educated native workers experience employment losses due to immigration, whereas high-educated ones are more likely to …
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