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The Labor Market Impact of High-Skill Immigration
Borjas, George J. - 2021
The rapid growth in the number of foreign students enrolled in American universities has transformed the higher education system, particularly at the graduate level. Many of these newly minted doctorates remain in the United States after receiving their doctoral degrees, so that the foreign...
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DeZIM.panel : data for Germany’s post-migrant society
Dollmann, Jörg; Mayer, Sabrina Jasmin; Lietz, Almuth; … - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 243 (2023) 1, pp. 93-108
The @German DeZIM.panel is an online access panel that provides data specifically for topics regarding migration and … integration. It includes an oversampling for several migrant groups in Germany, and thus allows specific subgroup analyses. Due to …The German DeZIM.panel is an online access panel that provides data specifically for topics regarding migration and …
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The Adverse Effect of the Covid-19 Labor Market Shock on Immigrant Employment
Borjas, George J. - 2020
Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the repercussions of … document that the employment decline was particularly severe for immigrants. Historically, immigrant men were more likely to be … employed than native men. The COVID-related labor market disruptions eliminated the immigrant employment advantage. By April …
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The Assimilation of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Markets
LaLonde, Robert; Topel, Robert H. - 2022
understate the actual rate of assimilation because of the sharp decline in the relative wages of unskilled U.S. workers. We also …
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Employment, Wages, and Unionism in a Model of the Aggregate Labor Market in Britain
Pencavel, John H. - 2010
-defined negative causal relationship from wages to employment with the features of a conventional labor demand function. Using …Two propositions figure prominently in explanations for Britain's comparatively low growth in employment: first, the … wage-setting mechanism is insufficiently responsive to the growth of unemployment and, second, there exists a well …
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The Labor Market Effects of a Refugee Wave : Applying the Synthetic Control Method to the Mariel Boatlift
Peri, Giovanni - 2015
find no significant difference in the wages of workers in Miami relative to its control after 1980. We also show that by …
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The Labor Market Effects of Opening the Border : Evidence from Switzerland
Beerli, Andreas - 2015
, we find increases in wages, employment and firm-creation, especially in high-skilled manufacturing and knowledge … increased their employment within 20 minutes of commuting time from the border by four to five percentage points. The increased … inflow was constituted of highly-educated workers and it was associated with an increase in wages for highly-educated Swiss …
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Wage and Employment Determinants Under Trade Unionism : The Internationaltypographical Union
Dertouzos, J.N; Pencavel, John H. - 2021
literature for over thirty years. The wages and employment o typographers are examined to see whether they can be usefully … characterized as the outcome of a process by which the union maximizes an objective function containing wages and employment and is … wages and employment of these workers compared with our more general formulation …
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How do labor markets affect crime? New evidence on an old puzzle
Mustard, David B. - 2010
For nearly 50 years academics have been studying how labor markets affect crime. The initial interesting and important theoretical and empirical work generated substantial interest in studying crime among economists, in particular, and scholars in the social sciences more broadly. This...
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Trade, Jobs, and Wages
Krugman, Paul R.; Lawrence, Robert Z. - 2021
There is a broad consensus among US opinion leaders that our economic problem is largely one of failures of international competition -- that trade deficits have eroded our manufacturing base, that inability to sell on world markets has been a major drag on economic growth, and that imports from...
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