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the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the … through immigration increases the aggregate unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage points and reduces average wages by … less 0.1 percent. While native workers benefit from increased wages and lower unemployment, foreign workers are adversely …
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This article presents and explores a rich new data source to analyse the determinants of pay and job rank amongst academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be important determinants of the relative wage and...
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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …
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and job mobility. Across education groups permanent shocks to productivity have become more dispersed. Moreover …
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Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants … immigrants that tend to marry natives but are instead most likely a result of increasing returns to the characteristics of … immigrants married to natives. Because immigrants married to natives tend to have more schooling, part of the increasing premium …
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This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household … immigrants and natives. Individual rates of wage convergence are found to be higher for immigrants who fled warfare zones, belong … contributes substantially to closing the wage gap with natives. The treatment effect is heterogeneous, favoring immigrants who are …
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The use of informal job search method is prevalent in many countries. There is, however, no consensus in the literature on whether it actually matters for wages, and if it does, what are the underlying mechanisms. We empirically examine these issues specifically for rural migrants in urban...
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penalty. In addition, few studies have considered overeducation among immigrants. This paper uses panel data analyses to … investigate the match between education and occupation and resulting earnings effects for immigrants from English Speaking, and …) that are crucial in overeducation analysis. First, we find that immigrants have significantly higher incidence rates of …
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Wages are only mildly cyclical, implying that shocks to labour demand have a larger short-run impact on unemployment …
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Using nationally representative, longitudinal data from the first 14 waves of the British Household Panel Survey we examine the labour market returns to inter-regional migration in Great Britain. Controlling for endogeneity, heterogeneity and self-selection, we find substantial long-run wage...
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