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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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This paper studies the effects of immigration on the allocation of occupational physical burden and work injury risks …. Using data for England and Wales from the Labour Force Survey (2003-2013), we find that, on average, immigration leads to a … important differences across skill groups. Immigration reduces the average physical burden of UK-born workers with medium levels …
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variation in changes of immigration and integration policies across Western EU member states to study how they are associated … with labor market hierarchies in terms of unemployment and employment quality gaps between immigrant and native populations …
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The immigrant (foreign-born) population increased by 32 million in total across 37 European countries from 1990 to 2019. Much of this movement was from east to west. Indeed, both the total and foreign-born populations declined in the former Eastern Bloc over this period. Such demographic shifts...
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less intently on manual skills. Following immigration, they find initial employment in occupations that require the …We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We …
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Previous research has found that immigration benefits the health of working-age natives, an effect mediated through the … labor market. We use the Study of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to investigate whether immigration also … affects the health of natives 65-80 years old. Immigration may increase the supply and lower the price of personal and …
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decline observed in many high-income countries. In the recent past large inflows of lowskilled migrants have substantially … exploiting the natural experiment occurred in Italy in 2007, when a large inflow of migrants - many of them specialized in the …
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immigrant men following the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act have low initial earnings and high earnings growth. Another …
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This paper examines the effect of immigration on workplace safety, a new and previously unexplored outcome in the … follow an IV strategy based on the distribution of early migrants settlements across provinces. Our results show that the …. Finally, we find no effects of immigration on the workplace safety of immigrants. These results add a previously unexplored …
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result in a large fall in immigration from EEA countries to the UK. …
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