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On Optimal Currency Areas and Common Cycles : Are the Acceding Countries Ready to Join the Euro?

Grimm, Louisa; Steinkamp, Sven; Westermann, Frank - 2021

The former EU president Jean-Claude Junker has proposed that all countries of the European Union should also adopt the euro as their currency and recent research has shown that countries currently pursuing this goal indeed fulfill the classical Optimal Currency Area (OCA) criterion of positively...

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EU enlargement, migration and the new constitution

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2004

is a rational reaction of the state. The proposed new EU constitution which contains far-reaching rules for a European …

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When Immigrants Meet Exporters : A Reassessment of the Immigrant Wage Gap

Marchal, Léa; Ourens, Guzmán; Sabbadini, Giulia - 2022

We use French employer-employee data to reassess the wage gap between native and foreign workers. We find that the wage gap varies with the export intensity of the firm and the occupation of the worker. A model with heterogeneous firms and workers shows that our findings are consistent with...

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The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions on US Firms and Workers : Evidence from a Randomized Lottery

Clemens, Michael A.; Lewis, Ethan - 2022

The U.S. limits work visas for low-skill jobs outside of agriculture, with a binding quota that firms access via a randomized lottery. We evaluate the marginal impact of the quota on firms entering the 2021 H-2B visa lottery using a novel survey and pre-analysis plan. Firms exogenously...

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The Cushioning Effect of Immigrant Mobility

Özgüzel, Cem - 2021

During the Great Recession, immigrants reacted to the drop in labour demand in Spain through internal migration or leaving the country. Consequently, provinces lost 13.5% of their immigrants or - 3% of the total labour supply, on average. Using municipal registers and longitudinal administrative...

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Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants

Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021

In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...

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Does Labor Protection Increase Support for Immigration? Evidence from Switzerland

Bächli, Mirjam; Tsankova, Teodora - 2021

What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised … reduces pro-immigration vote shares in municipalities with a relatively low-skilled native population. The negative response …

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Labor Market Concerns and Support for Immigration

Haaland, Ingar - 2020

Do labor market concerns affect support for immigration? Using a large, representative sample of the US population, we … first elicit beliefs about the labor market impact of immigration. To generate exogenous variation in beliefs, we then … provide respondents in the treatment group with research evidence showing no adverse labor market impacts of immigration …

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Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching

Orefice, Gianluca - 2020

association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by …

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Can Leaders Persuade? Examining Movement in Immigration Beliefs

Afrouzi, Hassan; Arteaga, Carolina; Weisburst, Emily - 2022

Can political leaders change constituents’ beliefs? If so, is it rhetoric, identity, or the interaction of the two that matters? We construct a large-scale experiment where participants are exposed to anti-immigrant and pro-immigrant speeches from both Presidents Obama and Trump. We benchmark...

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