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The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
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the period 1995-2001, in order to identify the effect of inflows of immigrants on their career, employment, location and … wage. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by nationality across European labor markets to construct an imputed … their occupation to one associated with higher skills and better pay, when a larger number of immigrants enter their labor …
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the period 1995-2001, in order to identify the effect of inflows of immigrants on their career, employment, location and … wage. We use the 1991 distribution of immigrants by nationality across European labor markets to construct an imputed … their occupation to one associated with higher skills and better pay, when a larger number of immigrants enter their labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010885182
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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959659
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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416950
Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower … immigrants. Allowing firms to have differential fixed cost in hiring immigrants we analyze the impact of an increase in local … supply of immigrants on firms' immigrant employment and firm's productivity. Using micro-level data on French firms, we show …
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Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower … immigrants. Allowing firms to have differential fixed cost in hiring immigrants we analyze the impact of an increase in local … supply of immigrants on firms' immigrant employment and firm's productivity. Using micro-level data on French firms, we show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756235