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Population Adjustment to Asymmetric Labour Market Shocks in India A Comparison to Europe and the United States at Two Different Regional Levels
Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick - 2022
changes as proxies for regional migration. Comparing the results with those for the United States and the European Union, the … regional shocks by adjusting up to a third of a regional non-employment shock through migration within two years. This is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532983
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Population Adjustment to Asymmetric Labour Market Shocks in India: A Comparison to Europe and the United States at Two Different Regional Levels
Braschke, Franziska; Puhani, Patrick A. - 2022
changes as proxies for regional migration. Comparing the results with those for the United States and the European Union, the … regional shocks by adjusting up to a third of a regional non-employment shock through migration within two years. This is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252993
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Occupational Regulation, Institutions, and Migrants' Labor Market Outcomes
Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2022
We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their representation among licensed, certified, and unionized workers. We provide evidence of a dual role of labor market institutions, which both screen workers based on unobservable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817870
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The Effect of Immigration on Wages: Exploiting Exogenous Variation at the National Level
Llull, Joan - 2014
This paper estimates the effect of immigration on native wages at the national level taking into account the endogenous allocation of immigrants across skill cells. Time-varying exogenous variation across skill cells for a given country is provided by interactions of push factors, distance, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532918
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The Effects of Immigration on U.S. Wages and Rents: A General Equilibrium Approach
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P.; Peri, Giovanni - 2007
In this paper we document a strong positive correlation of immigration flows with changes in average wages and average house rents for native residents across U.S. states. Instrumental variables estimates reveal that the correlations are compatible with a causal interpretation from immigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533085
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The Impact of Mass Migration of Syrians on the Turkish Labor Market
Aksu, Ege; Erzan, Refik; Kırdar, Murat Güray - 2019
We estimate the effects of the arrival of 2.5 million Syrian migrants in Turkey by the end of 2015 on the labor market outcomes of natives, using a difference-in-differences IV methodology. We show that relaxing the common-trend assumption of this methodology - unlike recent papers in the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533088
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The Effect of Emigration from Poland on Polish Wages
Dustmann, Christian; Frattini, Tommaso; Rosso, Anna - 2012
This paper analyses the effect of emigration from Poland around the time of EU accession on the Polish labour market. We develop a simple model that guides our empirical specification and provides a clear interpretation for our estimates. Focussing on the 1998-2007 period for Poland, we use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533102
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International Trade and Labor Market Integration of Immigrants
Lodefalk, Magnus; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Tang, Aili - 2020
We examine if international trade improves labor market integration of immigrants in Sweden. Immigrants participate substantially less than natives in the labor market. However, trading with a foreign country is expected to increase the demand for immigrants from that country. By hiring...
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Free vs. Restricted Immigration : Bilateral Country Study
Razin, Assaf - 2011
This paper tests the differential effects of the generosity of the welfare state under free migration and under policy …-controlled migration, distinguishing between source developing and developed countries. We utilize free-movement within the EU to examine … the free migration regime and compare that to immigration into the EU from two other groups, developed and developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128835
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Immigrant Welfare Receipt Across Europe
Barrett, Alan - 2011
The issue of welfare receipt by immigrants is highly controversial across Europe. In this paper, we assess whether immigrants are more likely to receive welfare payments relative to natives across a range of European countries. Using the European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129906