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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 paper analyses the welfare effects of immigration when some sectors of the economy are characterized by wage … bargaining between unions and employers. We show that immigration is unambiguously beneficial if the wage elasticity of labor … immigrat ion is ambiguous; little immigration then reduces the native population's welfare, whereas large scale immigration …
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What affects native support for immigration? At a time of rising anti-immigration sentiments, this is a question raised … reduces pro-immigration vote shares in municipalities with a relatively low-skilled native population. The negative response …
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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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This paper analyses the impact of immigration on the welfare of the native population in an economy that consists of … level. For a given skill endowment of the native population, we show that immigration reduces the welfare of the host … country up to a certain threshold and then increases it with further immigration. For the case of endogenous skill formation …
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I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination … countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants can reduce the average skill composition. The … hypothesis, I use survey data on attitudes toward migrants as well as data on migrant stocks by education level and origin …
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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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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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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 … performance and welfare. Lower immigration leads to higher wages for low-skilled workers and higher consumer prices. Importantly …
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