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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011669546
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564132
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Effects of immigration on labour markets and government budgets : an overview
Leibfritz, Willi; O'Brien, Paul Sherlock; Dumont, … - 2003
The paper provides an overview on recent trends of immigration in OECD countries and on the possible effects of … immigration on labour markets and government budgets. It also discusses migration policies from an economic point of view. By …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506210
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Endogenous skill formation and the source country effects of international labor market integration
Egger, Hartmut (contributor);  … - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003498678
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529186
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Effects of psychiatric disorders on labor market outcomes : a latent variable approach using multiple clinical indicators
Banerjee, Souvik; Chatterji, Pinka; Lahiri, Kajal - 2013
In this paper, we estimate the effect of psychiatric disorders on labor market outcomes using a structural equation model with a latent index for mental illness, an approach that acknowledges the continuous nature of psychiatric disability. We also address the potential endogeneity of mental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009748359
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Macroeconomic shocks and racial labour market differences in the U.S.
De, Kuhelika; Compton, Ryan A.; Giedeman, Daniel C.; … - 2019
Using 136 United States macroeconomic indicators from 1973 to 2017, and a factor augmented vector autoregression (FAVAR) framework with sign restrictions, we investigate the effects of three structural macroeconomic shocks - monetary, demand, and supply - on the labour market outcomes of black...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012157899
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The policy drivers of self-employment : new evidence from Europe
Mourougane, Annabelle; Égert, Balázs; Baker, Mark; … - 2020
Using cross-country time series panel regressions for the last two decades, this paper seeks to identify the main policy and institutional factors that explain the share of self-employment across European countries. It looks at the aggregate share of self-employed as well as its breakdown by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012388242