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captures the causal link from immigrants to native labor outcomes and we show estimates obtained with 2SLS method using the … briefly review the literature on the channels and the mechanisms that allow local economies to absorb immigrants with no …
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We study the effects of immigration on native welfare in a general equilibrium model featuring two skill types, search frictions, wage bargaining, and a redistributive welfare state. Our quantitative analysis suggests that, in all 20 countries studied, immigration attenuates the effects of...
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newly legalized immigrants represented 12 percent of the non-French workforce and about 1 percent of all workers. Employers …
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and country of origin/destination, for the years 1990 and 2000. Due to the much higher international mobility of college … inequality in all OECD countries. These results still hold true when we correct for the estimates of undocumented immigrants, for … the skill-downgrading of immigrants, when we focus on immigration from non-OECD countries, and when we consider …
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The labor market performance of immigrants relative to natives has been widely studied but its gender dimension has … been relatively neglected. Our paper aims at revisiting labor market convergence between immigrants and natives and … potential factors such as economic conditions, labor markets structure, institutions and attitudes towards immigrants and women …
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to document that the employment decline was particularly severe for immigrants. Historically, immigrant men were more …-of-work immigrants could find jobs fell relative to the native job-finding rate. A small part of the relative increase in the immigrant … rate of job loss arises because immigrants were less likely to work in jobs that could be performed remotely and suffered …
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the period 1980-2006. We also collect data on time-varying immigration policies that regulate the entry of immigrants for … elasticity is twice as high for within-EU migration, reflecting the higher degree of labor mobility within the European Union. We …
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to be called the Great Recession. Next we look at the labour market and how employment and unemployment have been …
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This paper focuses particularly on youth unemployment, why we should be concerned about it, why it is increasing again … adulthood unemployment creates long lasting scars which affect labour market outcomes much later in life. Our chosen variables … are weekly wages and happiness. Our results show significant effects at age 50 from early adulthood unemployment. These …
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This paper uses census and survey data to identify the wage earning ability and the selection of recent Romanian migrants and returnees. We construct measures of selection across skill groups and estimate the average and the skill-specific premium for migration and return for three typical...
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