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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 …
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Minimum wages and the labor market effects of immigration
Edo, Anthony; Rapoport, Hillel - 2017
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 workers within a given state-skill cell are more negative in U … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …
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The role of firms and job mobility in the assimilation of immigrants : former Soviet Union jews in Israel 1990-2019
Arellano-Bover, Jaime; San, Shmuel - 2024
We study how job mobility, firms, and firm-ladder climbing can shape immigrants’ labor market success. Our context is the mass migration of former Soviet Union Jews to Israel during the 1990s. Once in Israel, these immigrants faced none of the legal barriers that are typically posed by...
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Immigration and employer transitions for STEM workers
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R. - In: The American economic review 103 (2013) 3, pp. 193-197
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Immigration, social networks and occupational mismatch
Alaverdyan, Sevak; Zaharieva, Anna - In: Economic modelling 114 (2022), pp. 1-26
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The integration of migrants in the German labor market : evidence over 50 years
Berbée, Paul; Stuhler, Jan - 2023
Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus, we study their labor market integration over the last 50 years and highlight differences to the US case. Although the employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline...
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DACA, mobility investments, and economic outcomes of immigrants and natives
Kiser, Jimena Villanueva; Wilson, Riley - 2024
Exploiting variation created by Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), we document the effects of immigrant legalization on mobility investments and economic outcomes. DACA increased both geographic and job mobility of young immigrants, leading them to high paying labor markets and...
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Worker power, immigrant sorting, and firm dynamics
Silliman, Mikko; Willén, Alexander - 2024
This paper combines two of the most central features of modern labor markets —immigrants and unions —to examine the role of worker power in shaping immigrant sorting across firms, and how that subsequently influences the performance of firms and the careers of incumbent workers. First,...
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The labor-market impact of high-skill immigration
Borjas, George J. - In: The American economic review 95 (2005) 2, pp. 57-60
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Understanding, speaking, reading, writing, and earnings in the immigrant labor market
Carnevale, Anthony Patrick; Fry, Richard A.; Lowell, … - In: The American economic review 91 (2001) 2, pp. 159-163
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