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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 … labor market, looking at both wage and employment effects. Using the Regional File of the IAB Employment Subsample for the …
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likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants … 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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such has raised labor supply. However studies of the impact of immigration have failed to find any significant effect on …Immigration to the UK, particularly among more educated workers, has risen appreciably over the past 30 years and as … 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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During the second part of the 1990s, the Israeli economy experienced a surge in labour productivity and total factor … productivity, which was driven primarily by the manufacturing sector. This surge in productivity coincided with the full absorption …-skilled immigration wave was one of the main determinants for the fast growth of the Israeli economy in the 1990s. In this paper, I use a …
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imports, and an ambiguous literature on immigration which implies a small overall impact on the wages of the average native …: changes in labor’s share of income; inequality at the bottom of the income distribution, including labor mobility; skill … in the income distribution, particularly at the top. We conclude that changes in labor’s share play no role in rising …
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relationship between firm age and employee compensation as well as firm age and firm productivity suggest that there may be at …
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