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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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Immigration and Gender Differences in the Labor Market
Llull, Joan - 2021
This paper analyzes the effect of immigration on gender gaps in the labor market. Using an equilibrium structural model for the U.S. economy, I simulate the importance of two mechanisms: the differential labor market competition induced by immigration on male and female workers, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532765
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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India
Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - 2010
India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has expanded due to globalization in recent decades. It is widely believed that there are sizable economic returns to English-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532821
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Displacement Effects in Manufacturing and Structural Change
Helm, Ines; Kuegler, Alice; Schoenberg, Uta - 2023
We investigate the consequences of structural change for workers displaced from the manufacturing sector. Manufacturing establishments traditionally employed low- and high-wage workers in similar proportions and paid substantial wage premiums to both types of workers. Structural change has led...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532917
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The Returns to English-Language Skills in India
Azam, Mehtabul; Chin, Aimee; Prakash, Nishith - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010
India's colonial legacy and linguistic diversity give English an important role in its economy, and this role has expanded due to globalization in recent decades. It is widely believed that there are sizable economic returns to English-language skills in India, but the extent of these returns is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317994
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Migration and Education
Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht - 2011
Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the human agent. Migration and … at many stages of an individual's migration. Differential returns to skills in origin- and destination country are a main … driver of migration. The economic success of the immigrant in the destination country is to a large extent determined by her …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014533045
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Migration and Education
dustmann, christian; Glitz, Albrecht - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the human agent. Migration and … at many stages of an individual's migration. Differential returns to skills in origin- and destination country are a main … driver of migration. The economic success of the immigrant in the destination country is to a large extent determined by her …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317960
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How Broadband Internet Affects Labor Market Matching
Bhuller, Manudeep; Kostøl, Andreas R.; Vigtel, Trond C. - 2020
How the internet affects job matching is not well understood due to a lack of data on job vacancies and quasi-experimental variation in internet use. This paper helps fill this gap using plausibly exogenous roll-out of broadband infrastructure in Norway, and comprehensive data on recruiters,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532777
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Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use: The Case of Transportation Policies
Zenou, Yves - 2010
We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban … city and a restricting-migration policy that imposes some costs on migrants. We show that all these policies can increase … effect on urban wages, which reduces job creation and thus migration. When these two effects are combined with search …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532872