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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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appears negative. These contradictory findings suggest that the impact of immigration on native wages varies significantly … from the O*NET skill taxonomy, we create more homogeneous skill groups, enabling a precise analysis of immigration's impact … between native wages and immigrant shares. In contrast, when groups are based on education-experience, the relationship …
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This guide, updated for the 2016-17 job market season, describes the U.S. academic market for new Ph.D. economists and offers advice on conducting an academic job search. It provides data, reports findings from published papers, describes practical details, and includes links to online...
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same linguistic background as natives. This, in turn, produced heterogeneous effects on natives wages and employment. While …
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significant for low-skilled immigrants from the new member states or with the medium number of years since immigration, as well as … economic shocks, and support the case for well-designed immigration policy and free movement of workers within the EU. Paper …
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We argue that the arrival of immigrants with low reservation wages can strengthen the monopsony power of firms. Firms … can exploit "cheap" migrant labor by offering lower wages, though at the cost of forgoing potential native hires who … demand higher wages. This monopsonistic trade-off can lead to large negative effects on native employment, which exceed those …
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immigration and female wages arises partly because the native women who left the labor force had relatively low wages. Adjusting …, 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 …
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This paper examines immigrant wage growth taking into account selective out-migration using administrative data from the Netherlands. We also take into account the potential endogeneity of the immigrants' labor supply and their out-migration decisions on their earning profiles using a correlated...
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The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....
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from distributional (relative) wage consequences of immigration but exacerbate the impacts on average wages in the economy …We study the role of institutions in affecting the labor market impacts of immigration using a cross-country meta … immigration from 61 academic studies covering 18 developed countries. The mean and median impact on the relative wage of directly …
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