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The perceived impact of immigration on native workers' labour market outcomes
Hayo, Bernd; Roth, Duncan - 2024
A sizeable literature analyses how immigration affects attitudes towards migrants and discusses differences between … representative survey of the German population to assess whether respondents express fears of job loss due to immigration. We focus …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062019
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Immigrants and unemployment in the European Community : from the eyes of natives
Gang, Ira N.; Rivera-Batiz, Francisco L.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002 - November 1999 (revised: May 2002)
This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313919
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Interacting product and labor market regulation and the impact of immigration on native wages
Prantl, Susanne; Spitz-Oener, Alexandra - 2014
Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … reunification and allowing for endogenous immigration, we compare native wage reactions across different segments of the West German … labor market: one segment without product and labor market regulation, to which standard immigration models best apply, one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230515
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Migration, crisis and adjustment in an enlarged E(M)U : the Spanish perspective
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Farré, Lídia - 2014
This paper investigates the labour market and welfare changes experienced by enlarged-EU migrants before and after 2007. For this purpose, we briefly review the Spanish socio-economic institutional background, as well as its migration policy towards enlarged-EU citizens. Then we discuss the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010341331
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Education and self-employment : South Asian immigrants in the US labor market
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - 2014
immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010350863
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Educational attainment and labor market performance : an analysis of immigrants in France
Akgüç, Mehtap; Ferrer, Ana M. - 2015
Using a recent survey of immigrants to France, we provide a detailed analysis of the educational attainment and labor market performance of various sub-population groups in France. Our results indicate that immigrants to France are less educated than the native born and that these differences...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498504
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How do immigrants from Taiwan fare in the US labor market?
Lin, Carl - 2013
This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate that the rising returns to education, pre-migration experience and hours worked per week play...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221816
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Population growth, immigration and labour market dynamics
Elsby, Michael W. L.; Smith, Jennifer C.; Wadsworth, … - 2021
the 1980s, and latterly by immigration in the 2000s. New measures of labour market flows by migrant status uncover both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698331
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The adverse effect of the COVID-19 labor market shock on immigrant employment
Borjas, George J.; Cassidy, Hugh - 2020
Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the initial repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper uses data from the CPS Basic Monthly Files to document that the employment decline was particularly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012226892
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An introduction to the economics of immigration in OECD countries
Edo, Anthony; Ragot, Lionel; Rapoport, Hillel; … - 2020
effects of immigration in those nations. Four broad topics are addressed: labor market issues, fiscal questions, the political … economy of immigration, and productivity/international trade. Extreme concerns about deleterious labour market and fiscal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295298