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This paper contributes to the literature on the impact of immigrants on native female labour supply. By segmenting the market by educational levels, we are able to investigate which native-born women are more affected by an increase of low-skilled immigrants working in the household service...
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Empirical evidence for the US shows that migrants increase the productivity of regions. To explain the impact of migrants on the average firm productivity we construct a general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition a la Melitz (2003). We consider heterogeneous firms with different...
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immigrants. In this study we analyze the effects of a language training program for professional purposes on the employment … training increases the employment probability of individuals with migration background who participated in 2014 by …
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's earnings, wage, and employment loss after a mass layoff in comparison to a matched, nondisplaced, control worker. We find that … migrants face substantially higher earnings losses than natives due to both higher wage and employment losses. Differences in … but not the employment gap after displacement. Laid-off migrants are both less likely to become reemployed and work fewer …
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their opposition to future immigration. In turn, an open-minded and tolerant attitude promotes mutual trust and solidarity … natives' support for redistribution, with attitudes towards immigrants and immigration acting as mediators. By applying … losing intangible goods triggered by immigration is substantial in the formation of natives' socio-political attitudes …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had very different impacts on the employment and family work conditions of men and women …
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Immigration policy in most high-income countries is designed to promote qualified migration while maintaining high … services abroad on language skills at immigration trace back directly to migrants' participation in language courses, revealing …
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In this paper, we assess the impact of international migration, and the induced home-care service labour supply shock, on fertility decisions and labour supply of native females in Germany. Specifcally, we consider individual data of native women from the German Socio-Economic Panel and we merge...
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We provide estimates of the effect of migrant labor supply on resident employment. We exploit variation in the number … find a negative effect on employment growth of natives but only on other foreign residents. This also holds for unskilled …
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We estimate the effect of language training on subsequent employment and wages of immigrants under essential … into language training than immigrants with lower gains. We document up to 15 percent higher employment rates and 13 …
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