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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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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....
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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...
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Return Migration as Channel of Brain Gain
Mayr, Karin; Peri, Giovanni - 2008
Recent theoretical and empirical studies have emphasized the fact that the prospect of international migration … that temporary migration is widespread among highly skilled migrants (such as Eastern Europeans in Western Europe and … for return migration and which predicts who will migrate and who will return among agents with heterogeneous abilities. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532780
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The Short- and Long-Run Determinants of Less- Educated Immigrant Flows into U.S. States
Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - 2012
We use a gravity model of migration and alternative estimation strategies to analyse how income differentials affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532819
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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 calibrate the … liberalization which occurred between 1989 and 2004, and then the gains and losses from migration which would occur if barriers to … labor mobility are reduced. The lower barriers to migration result in significant migration of skilled workers from Eastern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532830
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How Do Industries and Firms Respond to Changes in Local Labor Supply?
Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - 2011
In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...
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The Labour Market Impact of Immigration: Quasi-Experimental Evidence
Glitz, Albrecht - 2006
With the fall of the Berlin Wall, ethnic Germans living in the former Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact countries were given the chance to migrate to Germany. Within 15 years, 2.8 million individuals moved. Upon arrival, these immigrants were exogenously allocated to different regions by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532888