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Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … reunification and allowing for endogenous immigration, we compare native wage reactions across different segments of the West German … labor market: one segment without product and labor market regulation, to which standard immigration models best apply, one …
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This paper studies the relationship between immigration and offshoring by examining whether an influx of foreign … that immigration and offshoring are substitutes has important policy implications, since restrictions on one may encourage …
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anecdotal evidence, we found little hard evidence that the inflow of accession migrants contributed to a fall in wages or a rise …
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In this paper, we analyse differences in the cyclical pattern of employment and wages of immigrants and natives for two …
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This paper uses firm level panel data of firm provided training to estimate its impact on productivity and wages. To …
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In this paper we highlight a specific mechanism through which social networks help in job search. We characterize the strength of a network by its likelihood of providing a job offer. Using a theoretical model we show that the wage differential in jobs found using networks versus those found...
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Does adoption of broadband internet in firms enhance labor productivity and increase wages? And is this technological …
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Previous studies show that immigrants married to natives earn higher wages than immigrants married to other immigrants …
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This study finds evidence of wage divergence between immigrants and natives in Germany using a country-wide household panel from 1984 to 2014. We incorporate the possibility of wage divergence into a two-period model of economic assimilation by modeling the differences in the efficiency of human...
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through immigration increases the aggregate unemployment rate by less than 0.1 percentage points and reduces average wages by … the assumption that wages respond to a change in the unemployment rate, albeit imperfectly. This allows one to derive the … less 0.1 percent. While native workers benefit from increased wages and lower unemployment, foreign workers are adversely …
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