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immigrants already employed, while the marginal effect on average firm wages is positively associated with the share of immigrant …
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We study how licensing, certification and unionisation affect the wages of natives and migrants and their …
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This study explores what determines employers' violations of the wage contracts of workers on H-1B temporary work visas, which occur when firms pay those workers below the promised prevailing or "market" wage. A theoretical framework is proposed that predicts more violations during economic...
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contract of employment, receiving hourly wages lower than the national hourly minimum wages, and experiencing insults and …
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Two radically different descriptions of immigrant earnings trajectories in the U.S. have emerged. One asserts that immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another asserts that post-1965 immigrants have low initial...
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, we estimate the causal effects of a firm's bilateral trade on employment and wages of immigrants from that country. We … find a positive, yet heterogeneous, effect of trade on immigrant employment but no effect on immigrant wages. …
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The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...
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markets, based on federal merger scrutiny guidelines, and that concentration generally decreases wages. For example, moving … from a market with an HHI of zero to a market comprised of two employers lowers H-1B worker wages approximately 10 percent …, and a pure monopsony (one employer) reduces wages by 13 percent. A simulation shows that wages under pure monopsony could …
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The initial earnings of U.S. immigrants vary enormously by country of origin. Via three interrelated analyses, we show earnings convergence across source countries with time in the United States. Human-capital theory plausibly explains the inverse relationship between initial earnings and...
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Immigrants in many Western countries have experienced poor economic outcomes. This has led to a lack of integration of child immigrants (the 1.5 generation) and the second generation in some countries. However, in Canada, child immigrants and the second generation have on average integrated very...
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