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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015
provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …
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Legal status at entry, economic performance, and self-employment proclivity : a bi-national study of immigrants
Constant, Amelie (contributor);  … - 2005
. Accounting for sample selectivity, the paper provides regressions explaining reservation wages, and actual earnings for paid … earnings differentials from working and reservation wages and for self-employment and paid-employment earnings matter much …
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Self-employment and earnings among high-skilled immigrants in the United States
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
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Labor market assimilation and the self-employment decision of immigrant entrepreneurs
Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011313956
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Protective or counter-productive? : labor market institutions and the effect of immigration on EU natives
Angrist, Joshua D.; Kugler, Adriana D. - 2002
consequences of immigration vary with institutions that affect labor market flexibility. Reduced flexibility may protect natives … increase the negative impact of immigration on equilibrium employment. In models without interactions, OLS estimates for a … panel of European countries in the 1980s and 1990s show small, mostly negative immigration effects. To reduce bias from the …
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Employer attitudes and the hiring of immigrants and international students : evidence from a survey of employers in Canada
Fang, Tony; Xiao, Na; Zhu, Jane; Hartley, John - 2022
What are the perceptions of employers towards hiring immigrants and international students in Atlantic Canada? How are they related to hiring outcomes? Our analysis based on a 2019 random, representative survey of 801 employers finds that those employers who report beliefs that multiculturalism...
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Open labor markets and firms' substitution between training apprentices and hiring workers
Aepli, Manuel; Kuhn, Andreas - 2019
In this paper, we study whether Swiss employers substitute between training apprentices and hiring cross-border workers. Because both training apprentices and hiring skilled workers are costly for firms, we hypothesize that (easier) access to cross-border workers will lead some employers to...
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Trade and inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...
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The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment
Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016
For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research...
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The economic and fiscal effects on the United States from reduced numbers of refugees and asylum seekers
Clemens, Michael A. - 2022
prior estimates by including ripple effects beyond the wages earned or taxes paid directly by migrants. The sharp reduction …
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