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Do foreigners replace native immigrants? : evidence from a panel cointegration analysis
Brücker, Herbert; Fachin, Stefano; Venturini, Alessandra - 2009
the immigration of foreigners replaces domestic mobility from poor to rich regions. We focus on Italy, which is …This paper examines the impact of the immigration of foreigners on domestic labour mobility. Since David Card's seminal … the variance of the foreigner share across region for identifying the wage and employment effects of immigration, tend to …
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Does low skilled immigration cause human capital polarization? : evidence from Italian provinces
Brunello, Giorgio; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2017
While there is a vast literature considering the labour market effects of immigration, less has been done to … investigate how immigration affects the educational choices of young natives. Using Italian provincial data and an instrumental … variables strategy, we show that the recent increase in the immigration of low skilled labour has produced human capital …
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Does low skilled immigration increase profits? : evidence from Italian local labour markets
Brunello, Giorgio; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2019
low skilled immigration in Italy may have hampered the transition to an economic structure characterized by high …We estimate the (causal) effects of low skill immigration on the performance of Italian manufacturing firms. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011993391
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Benefits of education at the intensive margin : childhood academic performance and adult outcomes among American immigrants
Gevrek, Deniz; Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Guven, Cahit - 2014
Using the Children of the Immigrants Longitudinal Study (CILS), we examine the association between education at the intensive margin and twenty pecuniary and non-pecuniary adult outcomes among first- and second-generation American immigrant youth. Education at the intensive margin is measured by...
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International migration and regional housing markets : evidence from France
Albis, Hippolyte d’; Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane - 2017
This article examines the causal relations between non-European immigration and the characteristics of the housing … account GDP per capita and the unemployment rate as the main regional economic indicators. We find that immigration has no … significant effect on property prices, but that higher property prices significantly reduce immigration rates. We also find no …
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Does migration motive matter for migrants' employment outcomes? : the case of Belgium
Lens, Dries; Marx, Ive; Vujić, Sunčica - 2018
Despite being one of the most prolific spenders on active labour market policies, and investing heavily in civic integration programmes, family policies and career and diversity plans, the native-migrant employment gap in Belgium is still one of the largest among EU and OECD countries. Past...
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The immigration triangle : Quebec, Canada and the rest of the world
DeVoretz, Don J. (contributor); Pivnenko, Sergiy (contributor) - 2007
"Quebec, as many other immigrant destination areas, has experienced difficulty in retaining its original set of newcomers. The paper addresses this issue of retention in terms of a brain circulation model under which immigrants enter a niche area (Quebec) and receive subsidized human capital...
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The effects of immigration on wages in three European countries
Hartog, Joop; Zorlu, Aslan - 2002
We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives' wages from two to three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very small effects on natives' wages and no dominant robust...
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Do foreigners crowd natives out of STEM degrees and occupations? : evidence from the U.S. immigration act of 1990
Ransom, Tyler; Winters, John V. - 2016
This paper examines effects of the U.S. Immigration Act of 1990 on STEM (science, technology, engineering, and … STEM flows. We find that the Immigration Act changed natives' skill investment and utilization in three ways: (1) it pushed …
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Do English skills affect Muslim immigrants' economic and social integration differentially?
Yuksel, Mutlu; Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude; Guven, Cahit - 2019
This paper estimates the returns to English-speaking fluency on the socioeconomic outcomes of childhood immigrants. We further investigate whether Muslim childhood immigrants face additional hurdles in economic and social integration into the host country. Motivated by the critical age...
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