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During the Great Recession, immigrants reacted to the drop in labour demand in Spain through internal migration or leaving the country. Consequently, provinces lost 13.5% of their immigrants or - 3% of the total labour supply, on average. Using municipal registers and longitudinal administrative...
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of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all … geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the …
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With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could … have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while immigration into the production sector will always reduce wage …
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immigration facilitates innovation with favorable impact on reducing wage-gap. …With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector … that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could …
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The study proves evidence of five new empirical facts on the impact of services offshoring on local labour markets. First, services offshoring increases average employment and wages within local labour markets, much more so in the manufacturing industry than in the services one. Second, positive...
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migrants are perfect substitutes within a firm. In this setting, a skilled labor supply shock due to immigration has two …In this paper, we provide new explanations for the puzzling findings in the literature that migrants do not decrease … natives' wages, and that skilled immigration can actually increase them. We develop a model with regional labor markets and …
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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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We study the effects of technological change on immigration flows as well as the labor market outcomes of migrants … highly automated economy and the main destination for migrants in Europe. We apply an instrumental variable strategy and … identify how robots decrease the wage of migrants across all skill groups, while neither having a significant impact on the …
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converged somewhat during this period. In addition, we study the correlates of low-intensity immigration in Chile. Regions with … a relatively high share of North European migrants developed faster in terms of numeracy. …
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association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by …
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