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captures the causal link from immigrants to native labor outcomes and we show estimates obtained with 2SLS method using the … briefly review the literature on the channels and the mechanisms that allow local economies to absorb immigrants with no …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
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and country of origin/destination, for the years 1990 and 2000. Due to the much higher international mobility of college … inequality in all OECD countries. These results still hold true when we correct for the estimates of undocumented immigrants, for … the skill-downgrading of immigrants, when we focus on immigration from non-OECD countries, and when we consider …
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The labor market performance of immigrants relative to natives has been widely studied but its gender dimension has … been relatively neglected. Our paper aims at revisiting labor market convergence between immigrants and natives and … potential factors such as economic conditions, labor markets structure, institutions and attitudes towards immigrants and women …
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the period 1980-2006. We also collect data on time-varying immigration policies that regulate the entry of immigrants for … elasticity is twice as high for within-EU migration, reflecting the higher degree of labor mobility within the European Union. We …
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This paper uses census and survey data to identify the wage earning ability and the selection of recent Romanian migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skill-specific premium for migration and return for three typical...
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Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull factors in destination countries, and find that larger...
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outcomes of low skilled natives in response to an exogenous inflow of low skilled immigrants. We innovate on previous … identification strategies by considering immigrants distributed across municipalities by a refugee dispersal policy in place between … 1986 and 1998. We find that an increase in the supply of refugee-country immigrants pushed less educated native workers …
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This paper links data on establishments and individuals to analyze the role of establishments in the increase in inequality that has become a central topic in economic analysis and policy debate. It decomposes changes in the variance of log earnings among individuals into the part due to changes...
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