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Immigration, Jobs and Employment Protection : Evidence from Europe
D'Amuri, Francesco - 2011
In this paper we analyze the effect of immigrants on native jobs in fourteen Western European countries. We test whether the inflow of immigrants in the period 1996-2007 decreased employment rates and/or if it altered the occupational distribution of natives with similar education and age. We...
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Immigration and Occupational Comparative Advantage
Hanson, Gordon H.; Liu, Chen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Job choice by high-skilled foreign-born workers in the US correlates strongly with country of origin. We apply a Frechet-Roy model of occupational choice to evaluate the causes of immigrant sorting. In a gravity specification, we find that revealed comparative advantage in the US is stronger for...
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Effects of Low-Skilled Immigration on U.S. Natives : Evidence from Hurricane Mitch
Kugler, Adriana - 2008
previous Latin American immigrants falls when controlling for out-migration. This highlights the importance of controlling for … out-migration not only of natives but also of previous immigrants in regional studies of immigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464354
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Immigration and National Wages : Clarifying the Theory and the Empirics
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2008
This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas (2003) we focus on national labor markets for workers of different skills and we enrich his methodology and refine previous estimates. We emphasize that a production function...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464459
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Return Migration as a Channel of Brain Gain
Mayr, Karin - 2008
Recent theoretical and empirical studies have emphasized the fact that the prospect of international migration … that temporary migration is widespread among highly skilled migrants (such as Eastern Europeans in Western Europe and … for return migration and which predicts who will migrate and who will return among agents with heterogeneous abilities. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464608
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Migration flows in commodity cycles : assessing the role of migration policies
Duncan, Alan S.; Harris, Mark N.; Mavisakalyan, Astghik; … - In: European economic review : EER 127 (2020), pp. 1-14
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Welfare Magnet Hypothesis, Fiscal Burden and Immigration Skill Selectivity
Razin, Assaf - 2011
between skilled and unskilled migration rates. The main purpose of the paper is to assess the role of mobility restriction on … shaping the effect of the welfare state genrosity. In a free migration regime, the impact is expected to be negative on the … selective migration policies, favoring skilled migrants who tend to be net contributors to the fiscal system. We utilize the …
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The Abolition of Immigration Restrictions and the Performance of Firms and Workers : Evidence from Switzerland
Beerli, Andreas - 2018
We study a reform that granted European cross-border workers free access to the Swiss labor market and had a stronger effect on regions close to the border. The greater availability of cross-border workers increased foreign employment substantially. Although many cross-border workers were highly...
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Immigration and Worker-Firm Matching
Orefice, Gianluca - 2020
The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high quality firms have strong incentives to screen for the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482041
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Immigration, Offshoring and American Jobs
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - 2010
How many "American jobs" have U.S.-born workers lost due to immigration and offshoring? Or, alternatively, is it possible that immigration and offshoring, by promoting cost-savings and enhanced efficiency in firms, have spurred the creation of jobs for U.S. natives? We consider a multi-sector...
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