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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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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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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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and job mobility. Across education groups permanent shocks to productivity have become more dispersed. Moreover …
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duration dependence in unemployment benefits in a random on the job search model featuring two-sided heterogeneity. General …
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This paper is based on recently collected and rich survey data of a representative sample of entrants into unemployment …
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