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Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country=s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...
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high-skill workers.In this paper we show that a model of employer taste-based discrimination in a labor market … workers. We use the model to undertake a structural decomposition and conclude that discrimination resulting from employer …
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the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the … through immigration increases the aggregate unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage points and reduces average wages by … less 0.1 percent. While native workers benefit from increased wages and lower unemployment, foreign workers are adversely …
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natives and second generation migrants. We analyze an inflow sample into unemployment in Germany, and find differences between … employment probability about two months after unemployment entry. We observe a significantly lower employment probability for …
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religious and racial intolerance and discrimination relative to other immigrants. Further, I do not find evidence that after 9 …I examine whether after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 Muslim immigrants and immigrants who fit the Muslim … Arab stereotype in Australia perceive a greater increase in religious and racial intolerance and discrimination compared to …
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Building on recent analyses that find a sizeable, overall gender wage gap in Azerbaijan's workforce, this paper uses data on young workers in their early years in the labor market to understand how gender wage gaps evolve over time, if at all. Using a unique database from a survey of young...
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immigrants relative to native Germans from 1994 to 2015. We decompose the wage gap using the method for unconditional quantile … immigrants. The decomposition results clearly indicate a significant growing gap with higher wages for both foreigners (13.6 to … 17.6 %) and naturalised immigrants (10.0 to 16.4 %). The findings further display a low explanation for the wage gap in …
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, overall, education and labor market experience accumulated in the home countries of the immigrants receive significantly lower … immigrants across origin countries. Finally, imperfect human capital transferability appears to be a major factor in explaining … the wage differential between natives and immigrants …
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structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs …
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postcode-level data from administrative records to analyze the effects of immigration on wages and unemployment probabilities …
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