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characteristics of business owners, especially schooling and past wages, can partly explain the "serial entrepreneur premium''. Our …
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who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a temporary work visa have a large advantage over natives in wages …
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Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as … such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on … the wages of native-born workers in the UK. This is potentially puzzling since there is evidence that changes in the …
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In this paper we construct a simple model of the effects of immigration on the labour market outcomes of natives. In … this model, skilled and unskilled labour are substitutes, immigrants are complementary to the former, and wages are …, there are sufficient conditions for immigration to raise total employment. We then estimate the effects of immigration on …
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In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with changes in average wages and average … compatible with a causal interpretation from immigration to wages and rents of natives. Separating the effects of immigrants on … useful tool to evaluate the impacts of alternative immigration scenarios on U.S. wages and rents. …
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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 … as `flexible' as the UK labour market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration. …
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to reduce its labour costs. If the level of wages is sufficiently low, the firm's rate of productivity growth approaches …
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labor costs. Our analysis indicates that when wages and prices are flexible, product demand policies have no significant …
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