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The effect of foreign labor on native employment within an occupation depends on native labor supply to that occupation …-experiment is a legal requirement for employers to demand native labor with infinite elasticity at the wage earned by migrants; the … implies that the effect of migrant labor supply on native employment is close to zero within this occupation, and may be …
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is reduced and sometimes disappears after correcting for selection into employment. In most cases the remaining …
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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 … immigrants. Given that there is increasingly little to distinguish the skilled immigration policies of these countries, we …
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research on immigration, political behaviour and collective action. …
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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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employment outcomes of labour migrants (with and without a job prior to migration), family reunion migrants, student migrants and …' employment likelihood is lower when compared to labour migrants and natives. Refugees who do work tend to do so in temporary jobs … and in jobs that are below their skill levels. However, temporary employment is also prevalent among labour migrants …
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A sizeable literature analyses how immigration affects attitudes towards migrants and discusses differences between … representative survey of the German population to assess whether respondents express fears of job loss due to immigration. We focus … on the importance of perceptions of migrants' ability to do one's job in relation to these fears. Moreover, we compare …
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Does higher educational attainment lead to greater participation in self-employment? Available studies agree and … from poor countries to rich countries. Further, we focus exclusively on the self-employment participation among south Asian … immigration in the United States (using IPUMS Data), which the related literature has clearly neglected thus far despite long …
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