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association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by …The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages … that the increased degree of positive assortative matching is mainly reached by high-productive firms "losing" lower …
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We study immigration policy in a small receiving economy under self-selection of migrants. We show that a non …-discriminatory immigration policy choice affects and is affected by the migratory decisions of skilled and unskilled foreign workers. From this … interaction multiple equilibria may arise, which are driven by the natives' expectations on the welfare effects of immigration. In …
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We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants’ eligibility criteria for permanent …
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effects of different immigration and integration policies on the outcomes of refugee immigrants. In this article, we first … describe the Danish experience with refugee immigration over the past four decades. We then review different post …
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This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of immigrants in Germany. Applying panel analysis with a large set of fixed effects and controls, we isolate the association between initial network size and long-run immigrant outcomes....
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States—looking both over time with immigrants’ residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
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Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
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. However, the growth impact of immigration is small even in countries that have highly selective migration policies. …
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Creativity is often highly concentrated in time and space, and across different domains. What explains the formation and decay of clusters of creativity? We match data on notable individuals born in Europe between the XIth and the XIXth century with historical city data. The production and...
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We study how restrictive immigration policies and the unexpected loss of peers affect the performance of skilled …
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