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Migration, social standards and replacement incomes : how to protect low-income workers in the industrialized countries against the forces of globalization and market integration

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2004

replacement incomes implies migration into unemployment. Defending wages with replacement incomes brings about first …) exclusion of migrants from a national subsidy program makes it possible to avoid a distortion of the migration pattern. …

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Minimum wages and the labor market effects of immigration

Edo, Anthony; Rapoport, Hillel - 2017

We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects of immigration on labor market outcomes of native...

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The welfare state and the forces of globalization

Sinn, Hans-Werner (contributor) - 2007

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EU enlargement, migration, and lessons from German unification

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1999

The paper studies the role of international implications after EU enlargement. Based on a formal model with migration … costs for both capital and labor, it predicts a two-sided migration from the new to the old EU countries which is later … reversed. As the migration pattern chosen by market forces turns out to be effici e nt, migration should not be artificially …

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Immigration and electoral support for the far-left and the far-right

Edo, Anthony; Giesing, Yvonne; Öztunc, Jonathan; … - 2018

Immigration has become one of the most divisive political issues in the United States, the United Kingdom, France and several other Western countries. We estimate the impact of immigration on voting for far-left and far-right candidates in France, using panel data on presidential elections from...

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EU enlargement, migration and the new constitution

Sinn, Hans-Werner (contributor) - 2004

The paper deals with the effects of migration resulting from EU Eastern enlargement on the welfare states of Western … Europe. Although migration is good in principle, as it yields gains from trade and specialization for all countries involved …

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The impact of immigration on wage dynamics : evidence from the Algerian independence war

Edo, Anthony - 2017

This paper investigates the dynamics of wage adjustment to an exogenous increase in labor supply by exploiting the sudden and unexpected inflow of repatriates to France created by the independence of Algeria in 1962. I track the impact of this particular supply shift on the average wage of...

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