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More unaccompanied refugee children arrive to and get a residence permit in Sweden than in any other country in Europe …
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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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We compare winning and losing firms in lotteries for H-1B visas, matching administrative data on these lotteries to administrative tax data on U.S. firms and to approved U.S. patents. Winning one additional H-1B visa crowds out about 1.5 other workers at the firm. Additional H-1Bs have...
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International migrants who seek protection also participate in the economy. Thus the policy of the United States to drastically reduce refugee and asylum-seeker arrivals from 2017 to 2020 might have substantial and ongoing economic consequences. This paper places conservative bounds on those...
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We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta … immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly … from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …
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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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Exploiting a large French panel for 1976-2007, we examine the impact of low-educated immigration on the labour market … immigration. Low-educated immigration generally lowers the wages of blue-collar workers, but its impact is heterogeneous across …
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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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