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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration
Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Frattini, Tommaso - 2008
In the first part of this paper, we present a stylised model of the labour market impact of immigration. We then discuss mechanisms through which an economy can adjust to immigration: changes in factor prices, output mix and production technology. In the second part, we explain the problems of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533050
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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration
dustmann, christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Frattini, Tommaso - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2008
In the first part of this paper, we present a stylised model of the labour market impact of immigration. We then discuss mechanisms through which an economy can adjust to immigration: changes in factor prices, output mix and production technology. In the second part, we explain the problems of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004967949
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Migration and trade: theory with an application to the Eastern-Western European integration
Iranzo, Susana; Peri, Giovanni - 2009
explain the patterns of trade and migration as countries remove barriers to trade and to labor mobility. We parameterize the … liberalization which occured between 1989 and 2004, and then the gains and losses from migration which are expected to occur if legal … barriers to labor mobility are substantially reduced. The lower barriers to migration would result in significant migration of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332979
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Task specialization, immigration, and wages
Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - 2008
Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups are perfectly substitutable in production. In a simple model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266371
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Rethinking the gains from immigration: theory and evidence from the US
Peri, Giovanni; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2005
Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of U.S.-born workers, arguing that immigration harms less educated American workers in particular and all U.S.-born workers in general. Because U.S. and foreign born workers belong to different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266388
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The causes and effects of international migrations: evidence from OECD countries 1980-2005
Ortega, Francesc; Peri, Giovanni - 2009
new dataset on migration flows (and stocks) and on immigration laws for 14 OECD destination countries and 74 sending … countries for each year over the period 1980-2005. Second, it extends the empirical model of migration choice across multiple … international migration. Our estimates clearly show that bilateral migration flows are increasing in the income per capita gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266400
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The effects of immigration on California's labor market
Peri, Giovanni - 2006
US natives. Our estimates use international migration to other U.S. states as instrument for international migration to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266409
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The Value of H-1B Status in Times of Scarcity
Sparber, Chad - 2015
For-profit firms are limited in their ability to hire new, foreign-born, highly-educated workers after quotas on H-1B work permits are met each year, though they are able to hire existing H-1B workers. Universities and other non-profit research institutions do not face the same restrictions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532748
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Referral-based Job Search Networks
Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Schönberg, Uta - 2011
This paper develops a model and derives novel testable implications of referral-based job search networks in which employees provide employers with information about potential job market candidates that they otherwise would not have. Using unique matched employeremployee data that cover the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532756
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Task Specialization, Immigration, and Wages
Peri, Giovanni; Sparber, Chad - 2008
Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less-educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups are perfectly substitutable in production. In a simple model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532759