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Education and self-employment : South Asian immigrants in the US labor market
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - 2014
immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350863
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Immigration, search, and redistribution : a quantitative assessment of native welfare
Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2014
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418118
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Immigration, search, and redistribution : a quantitative assessment of native welfare
Battisti, Michele; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Peri, Giovanni; … - 2014
We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search … studied, immigration attenuates the effects of search frictions. These gains tend to outweigh the welfare costs of … redistribution. Immigration has increased native welfare in almost all countries. Both high-skilled and low-skilled natives benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010418917
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Educational attainment and labor market performance : an analysis of immigrants in France
Akgüç, Mehtap; Ferrer, Ana M. - 2015
Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less educated than the native born and that these differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498504
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How do immigrants from Taiwan fare in the US labor market?
Lin, Carl - 2013
This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate that the rising returns to education, pre-migration experience and hours worked per week play...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221816
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Population growth, immigration and labour market dynamics
Elsby, Michael W. L.; Smith, Jennifer C.; Wadsworth, … - 2021
the 1980s, and latterly by immigration in the 2000s. New measures of labour market flows by migrant status uncover both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698331
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The role of labor market institutions in the impact of immigration on wages and employment
Foged, Mette; Hasager, Linea; Yasenov, Vasil - 2021
We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta … immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly … from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484446
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The adverse effect of the COVID-19 labor market shock on immigrant employment
Borjas, George J.; Cassidy, Hugh - 2020
Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the initial repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper uses data from the CPS Basic Monthly Files to document that the employment decline was particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226892
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An introduction to the economics of immigration in OECD countries
Edo, Anthony; Ragot, Lionel; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020
effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political … economy of immigration, and productivity/international trade. Extreme concerns about deleterious labour market and fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295298
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Winners and losers of immigration
Fiaschi, Davide; Tealdi, Cristina - 2020
We aim to identify winners and losers of a sudden inflow of low-skilled immigrants using a general equilibrium search and matching model in which employees, either native or nonnative, are heterogeneous with respect to their skill level and produce different types of goods. We estimate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266693