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on this "shift-share" instrument conflate the short- and long-run responses to immigration shocks. If the spatial …-run effects. Our results are a cautionary tale for a large body of empirical work, not just on immigration, that rely on shift …
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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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This paper examines the short-run immigration effects on prices for owner-occupied housing and rents in Switzerland … Union (EU), enacted in 2002, as an exogenous shock to immigration. The first approach uses the AFMP reform within an …, distinguishing between regions with historically high, medium, and low immigration from EU-15 countries. The analysis based on data …
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This paper examines the effect of increasing foreign staffing on the labor market outcomes of native workers in the German long-term care sector. Using administrative social security data covering the universe of long-term care workers and policy-induced exogenous variation, we find that...
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The paper studies the demand for foreign graduates at the firm level. Using a unique dataset on recruitment policies of firms in four European countries, the determinants of demand for internationally mobile high-skilled employees are established. I investigate the number, origin, skills, and...
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, mechanically changing the average native wage in affected markets and biasing the estimated wage impact of immigration. We document … wage of French women, but led to a sizable decline in their employment rate. In contrast, immigration had little impact on … immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages. Adjusting …
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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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We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
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positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration … because immigration policy often regulates access to specific occupations. …
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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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