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Using the monthly samples of the Current Population Survey (CPS) outgoing rotation group files, this paper analyzes the most recent increase in the U.S. minimum wage rate. This study focuses on immigrant and native-born workers who are employed in industries with low and high immigrant...
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A rise in population caused by increased immigration is sometimes accompanied by concerns that the increase in population puts additional or differential pressure on welfare services which might affect the net fiscal contribution of immigrants. The UK and Germany have experienced significant...
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This paper is concerned with the determinants and consequences of immigrant/linguistic concentrations (enclaves). The reasons for the formation of these concentrations are discussed. Hypotheses are developed regarding ?ethnic goods? and the effect of concentrations on the immigrant?s language...
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We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … assess whether the average wages of natives across skill cells is affected by the share of immigrants across cells. When the … cells are based on education/experience, our results suggest a negative relationship between native wages and immigrant …
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This paper examines the relationship between immigrant occupational composition and wages in Sweden. Effects of changes … estimated. Our results suggest that increases in immigrant density have only small effects on wages and that the negative … relationship between wages and the proportion of immigrant workers in an occupation, observed in data, is almost entirely accounted …
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to 2007. Our results show that there is a significant increase in wages among both migrants and urban natives over this 5 …-year period, but migrants have enjoyed faster wage growth, and most of the increase of wages among migrants can be …
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(WHIP), to estimate a fixed effect model of the weekly wages of males aged 18-45 with controls for selection in return … the returns prevails, so that the foreign workers with lower wages are the most likely to stay in Italy. Also an ethnic …
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Low rates of internal migration in many European countries contribute to the persistence of significant regional labor market differences. To further our understanding of the underlying reasons I study internal migration in Germany, using the Mikrozensus, a very large sample of households living...
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This paper employs United States Census data to study the occupational allocation of immigrants. The data reveal that the occupational shares of various ethnic groups have grown drastically in regional labor markets over the period 1980 to 2000. We examine the extent to which this growth can be...
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While it is well known that some areas of the United States receive more immigrants than others, less is understood about the extent to which the character of immigration varies as well. There is much broader geographic variation in the skill and demographic composition of immigrants than...
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