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-level administrative data - that large immigration flows since 2012 have had dampening effects on aggregate wage growth, as complementarity …
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This paper uses census and household survey data on Cameroon, Ghana, and South Africa to examine immigration's impact … in the context of a segmented labor market in Sub-Saharan Africa. We find that immigration affects (i) employment (ii … the impact depends on the degree of complementarity between immigrants and native workers' skills. Immigration is found to …
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This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings …. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge …-histories of International Math Olympiad (IMO) medalists, we show that migrants to the U.S. are up to six times more productive …
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and mid-1990s. Using a system of equations for unemployment, labor-force participation, the real wage, and the immigration … that of an increase in domestic labor-force participation. The composition of immigration flows matters, and the proportion …
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The paper uses a large survey (GSOEP) to analyze the labor market performance of immigrants in Germany. It finds that new immigrant workers earn on average 20 percent less than native workers with otherwise identical characteristics. The gap is smaller for immigrants from advanced countries,...
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The large influx of migrants to Nordic countries in recent years is challenging the adoptability of Nordic labor market … better facilitates the integration of migrants into employment. In particular, greater wage flexibility at the firm level and …
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This paper presents novel empirical evidence on the labor market integration of migrants across Europe. It investigates … how successfully migrants integrate in 13 European countries by applying a unified framework to analyze a rich micro … impact of education acquired domestically and abroad in determining migrants' subsequent employment prospects. The analysis …
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Lockdowns imposed around the world to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic are having a differential impact on economic activity and jobs. This paper presents a new index of the feasibility to work from home to investigate what types of jobs are most at risk. We estimate that over 97.3...
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To monitor fiscal sustainability, this paper proposes a recursive algorithm derived from the law of motion of the debt-to-GDP ratio, subject to a government reaction function that links convergence to the targeted debt ratio with primary fiscal surpluses. Based on quarterly estimates of this...
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We investigate the relation between changes in tax composition and long-run economic growth using a new dataset covering a broad cross-section of countries with different income levels. We specifically consider 69 countries with at least 20 years of observations on total tax revenue during the...
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