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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 …
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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 …
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research on immigration, political behaviour and collective action. …
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significant for low-skilled immigrants from the new member states or with the medium number of years since immigration, as well as … economic shocks, and support the case for well-designed immigration policy and free movement of workers within the EU. Paper …
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restrictions on employment opportunities help explain why immigrants have lower employment and wages than native citizens. To test … prioritizing residents over refugees. Consistent with an effect of outside options on wages, removing 10% of jobs reduces refugees …' hourly wages by 2.8% and increases the wage gap to similar host-country citizens in similar jobs by 2.2%. Furthermore, we …
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to estimate how changes in the supply of immigrant workers affected natives' wages in the US. We begin by extending the … passes validity tests and has reasonably strong power. Second, we provide estimates of the impact of immigration on the … of natives in response to immigrants. Using these estimates, we calculate that immigration, thanks to native …
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we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical literature by means of meta-analyses of the impact of immigration on … wages and employment of native-born workers. While we have shown that the labour market impacts in terms of wages and … market outcomes: wages, employment, unemployment and labour force participation. We compare 45 primary studies published …
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period 1987-2001, we find that the substantial immigration of the 1990's had no adverse effects on native wages and …We adopt a general equilibrium approach in order to measure the effects of recent immigration on the Western German … 'flexible' as the UK labor market, it would be more efficient in dealing with the effects of immigration …
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find that a 10% increase in labor market concentration decreases hires by 12.4% and the wages of new hires by nearly 0 … employers in the retail industry would be most damaging, with about 24 million euros in annual lost wages for new hires, and an …
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This paper analyzes effects of population aging on the labor market and determines their broad implications for public policy. It takes Germany as an example, but it equally applies to the other large economies in Continental Europe. The paper argues that, alongside the amply discussed,...
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