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employment effects of broadband infrastructure roll-out and questions about who exactly are the winners and losers in the labor … wages. Understanding these complementary issues allows for policy conclusions that go beyond simply encouraging the …
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skill structure and employment expectations of the different skill categories. The analysis is based on cross-sectional data … both medium-skilled and unskilled workers. To account for censoring in the employment shares, the empirical analysis uses … employment expectations for workers with a university degree are positively related to the degree of ICT penetration. …
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crisis later that year. The labor market recovery was slow until 2013, when net immigration, employment growth, and …
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Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less … educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …
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wages, is sufficiently large to suggest that they are in high demand and that there is a relative scarcity. Policymakers …
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wages, is sufficiently large to suggest that they are in high demand and that there is a relative scarcity. Policymakers …
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Studies for major immigrant-receiving countries provide evidence on the comparative economic performance of immigrant classes (skill-, kinship-, and humanitarian-based). Developed countries are increasingly competing for high-skilled immigrants, who perform better in the labor market. However,...
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There is increasing global competition for high-skilled immigrants, as countries intensify efforts to attract a larger share of the world's talent pool. In this environment, high-skill immigrants are becoming increasingly selective in their choices between alternative destinations. Studies for...
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) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the … natives’ wages is still positive but much smaller, and natives’ wages are negatively related to the number of natives. To … understand this asymmetry and the positive impact of immigration on wages, we explore the link between immigration and the …
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