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from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta … immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly …
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This paper studies the relationship between past immigration experiences of the host country and the way new immigrants … different immigration histories. In both countries, immigrants tend to find their first jobs in low-paying establishments, where … are consistent with the hypothesis that the host country's immigration history plays a limited role in shaping the …
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Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants …
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temporary help service firm that records both workers' wages and their productivity as measured by the fees charged to client … demonstrate that the fees charged to clients grow faster over workers' tenure than the wages paid to workers. Finally, we find …-by-doing increases productivity more than wages. …
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outcomes. Specifically, we attempt to distinguish between the short-run and long-run effects of immigrants on natives' wages … for native workers, we expect that the impact of immigration will be largest immediately upon the immigrants' arrival, and … substitutes for natives because of their lack of local human capital, the initial effect of immigration is small, and the effect …
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anecdotal evidence, we found little hard evidence that the inflow of accession migrants contributed to a fall in wages or a rise … in claimant unemployment in the UK between 2004 and 2006. -- Migration ; employment ; wages ; Central and Eastern Europe …
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In this paper we highlight a specific mechanism through which social networks help in job search. We characterize the strength of a network by its likelihood of providing a job offer. Using a theoretical model we show that the wage differential in jobs found using networks versus those found...
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Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological …
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This paper examines the impact of the legal status of overseas migrants on their wages upon return to the home country … international migration, documented versus undocumented, we examine the impact of the illegal status on wages upon return. Relying …
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the productivity of workers aged 55 and more with at least an undergraduate degree is lower than their wages. For other … groups, we find that wages do not deviate significantly from productivity estimates. …
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