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low skillednatives. Secondly, the effect of an immigration flow by 5% of the total labourforce on native earnings … isexamined along three scenarios using a general equilibrium model. It is foundthat immigration has a largenegative effect on the … wages of less skilled natives and a small positive effecton the wages of high skilledworkers as new immigrants are less …
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We empirically analyze the language proficiency of migrants in the Netherlands. Traditionally, the emphasis in studying … level and the job. We also use objective information on professional level. Our estimation strategy allows for unobservable …
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This paper formulates a simple skill and education model to explain how better access to higher education leads to stronger assortative mating on skills of parents and more polarized skill and earnings distributions of children. Swedish data show that in the second half of the 20th century more...
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Immigration is a phenomenon of growing significance in many countries. Increasing social tensions are leading to … countries has been exceeded and social cohesion threatened. There is also in public discourse a common perception of immigration … resulting in economic costs, particularly with respect to wages and employment opportunities of the native born. This warrants a …
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-skilled migrants arriving from specific countries in certain years. Utilizing comprehensive tax and population data, we document …
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their subjective well-being remains lower than that of natives. This contrasts with migrants' own expectations and the …
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density and productivity and wages has long been established in the economic literature, less is known about the effects of … supply of university graduates on wages, i.e. the social return to education. …
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-intensity of the workers' own occupation in 1979. The estimation procedure rests on the assumption that the two instruments are …This paper studies the impact of routine job tasks on workers wages in the German labour market. Using nationally … associated with workers hourly wages; the negative effect of routine tasks is most pronounced in high-skilled non …
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