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We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to … influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and … weekly earnings of male university-educated immigrants in all three countries concomitant with skilled immigration policy …
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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be … positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration …
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is reduced and sometimes disappears after correcting for selection into employment. In most cases the remaining …
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What are the perceptions of employers towards hiring immigrants and international students in Atlantic Canada? How are …
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research on immigration, political behaviour and collective action. …
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We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories … average immigrant men in Canada do not experience any relative growth in these three outcomes compared to men born in Canada …
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This paper provides the first evidence on the regional impact of immigration on native employment in a cross …-run estimates show adverse employment effects in response to immigration, while these effects disappear in the longer run. Second …, low-educated native workers experience employment losses due to immigration, whereas high-educated ones are more likely to …
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wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on …, mechanically changing the average native wage in affected markets and biasing the estimated wage impact of immigration. We document … the employment rate of men, but led to a sizable drop in the male wage. We show that the near-zero correlation between …
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work health risks …. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey, we find that, on average, immigration leads to a reallocation … important differences across skill groups. Immigration reduces the average physical burden of UK-born workers with medium levels …
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integration programmes, family policies and career and diversity plans, the native-migrant employment gap in Belgium is still one … investigates how the motive for migrating to Belgium contributes to the native-migrant employment gap. Based on data from the 2014 … employment outcomes of labour migrants (with and without a job prior to migration), family reunion migrants, student migrants and …
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