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Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for … immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and … of immigration on native workers. Instead, using data from Spain, where the immigrant population has risen from 4 percent …
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underline the importance of more open immigration policies targeting high-skilled immigrants. The current policy not only cannot …
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We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives? wages from two to three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very small effects on natives? wages and no dominant robust...
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This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim … are relatively more pro-immigration. This is true for both our new measures of exposure. Second, we show that the … positive effect of education on pro-immigration attitudes is greatly reduced when we control for the degree of communication …
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In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the … literature. In all cases we find that immigration had a positive effect on the wage of less educated natives. It also increased …
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toward immigrants. I find that individuals with higher levels of skill are more likely to be pro-immigration in high per … correlated with immigration attitudes but they do not seem to alter significantly the results on the economic explanations. …
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This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...
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