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, resulting in gains in terms of both employment and wages for natives, which does not hold for documented immigration. Stricter … immigrants' wages are the lowest of all workers due to their ineligibility for unemployment benefits and lower wage bargaining …This paper explores the impact of undocumented as opposed to documented immigration in a model featuring search …
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Germany has become the second-most important destination for migrants worldwide. Using all waves from the microcensus … employment gaps between immigrant and native men decline after arrival, they remain large for most cohorts; the average gap after … systematic trend. Still, economic conditions do matter, and employment collapsed in some cohorts after structural shocks hit the …
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compare their wage assimilation to that of ethnic German immigrants from Eastern Bloc countries and international immigrants … education. However, these disadvantages were smaller than those of international immigrants, supporting the beneficial role of … cultural similarity. The earnings gap relative to West German natives narrowed over time for all immigrants. These findings are …
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effect on wages conditional on employment. The employment effect appears to be due to the effect of differences in the …Immigrants are more likely to have conationals as colleagues, however the consequences of such workplace segregation is … and find that a ten-percentage-point increase in the initial conational share lowers employment rates by 3.1 percentage …
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activity. Second, we show that wages react to changes in export intensity when the export destination coincides with the origin … gap varies with the export intensity of the firm and the occupation of the worker. A model with heterogeneous firms and … workers shows that our findings are consistent with white-collar immigrants capturing an informational rent. The evidence …
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state regulations to investigate how minimum wages affect the labor market impact of immigration. We find that the effects … immigration as well as state minimum wages, and to implementing a difference-in-differences strategy comparing U.S. States where …We exploit the non-linearity in the level of minimum wages across US States created by the coexistence of federal and …
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performance and welfare. Lower immigration leads to higher wages for low-skilled workers and higher consumer prices. Importantly …We document a steady decline in low-skilled immigration that began with the onset of the Great Recession in 2007, which … estimate a stochastic growth model with endogenous immigration and training to account for these facts and study macroeconomic …
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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 … employment and wage of natives. I use a modified shift-share instrument based on past settlements to claim causality. Employment …
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employment and higher wages, especially for low-wage workers such as female, unskilled, younger, and non-permanently insured … find evidence of trade diversion from China to Mexico. We then combine the export data with detailed longitudinal employer …
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wage bin throughout the monthly wage distribution. We find that, after one month, wages increased by 17 to 37 percent for …
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