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Labour immigration and union strength
Finseraas, Henning; Røed, Marianne; Schøne, Pål - 2018
To what extent is labour mobility in the European Union a threat to the strength of unions? We argue that the combination of cheap labour, workforce heterogeneity, and low unionization among labour immigrants' is a potential challenge for unions. The challenge will be particularly severe if...
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The informal labour market in India : transitory or permanent employment for migrants?
Junankar, Pramod N.; Shonchoy, Abu - 2013
This paper studies the characteristics of the workers in the informal economy and whether migrants treat this sector as … be in the informal sector. We distinguish between migrants who come from rural areas and urban areas to their present …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793453
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Welfare reform and migrant's long-term labor market integration
Kunz, Johannes; Zhu, Anna - 2023
We study the effect of reducing welfare assistance on migrants' long-term integration in Australia. The policy …
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The effect of occupational visas on native employment : evidence from labor supply to farm jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
-experiment is a legal requirement for employers to demand native labor with infinite elasticity at the wage earned by migrants; the …
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Immigration and the U.S. labor market : a look ahead
Holzer, Harry J. - 2020
toward more-skilled and labor-market-driven migrants. These reforms should occur within the broader context of "comprehensive …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012153549
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A comparative analysis of the labour market performance of university‐educated immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States : does policy matter?
Clarke, Andrew; Ferrer, Ana M.; Skuterud, Mikal - 2018
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...
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Education and self-employment : South Asian immigrants in the US labor market
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal; Roy, Sanjukta - 2014
% less chance of being self-employed than one without. In addition, we show that factors such as longer stay in USA and being …
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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...
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The effects of international migration on native workers' unionisation in Austria
Antón Pérez, José Ignacio; Böheim, René; … - 2016
We analyze the effects of increased immigration of foreign workers on the unionisation rates of native workers in Austrian firms over the period 2002–2012. Our results suggest that lower union density of natives' in firms with more foreign workers is driven not by natives leaving unions, but...
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Skilled migration policy and the labour market performance of immigrants
Tani, Massimiliano - 2017
1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the … an ineffective policy tool to influence migrants' labour market outcomes. However, the economic relevance of making an … effective use of migrants' skills provides scope for close coordination between immigration and employment policy to ensure that …
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