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Which immigrants are most innovative and entrepreneurial? Distinctions by entry visa
Hunt, Jennifer - 2010
Using the 2003 National Survey of College Graduates, I examine how immigrants perform relative to natives in activities likely to increase U.S. productivity, according to the type of visa on which they first entered the United States. Immigrants who first entered on a student/trainee visa or a...
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Estimating the impact of immigration on wages in Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - 2009
cells are based on education/experience, our results suggest a negative relationship between native wages and immigrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271579
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EU enlargement under continued mobility restrictions: consequences for the German labor market
Brenke, Karl; Yuksel, Mutlu; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2009
. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group among the EU8 immigrants: since enlargement, 63% of all immigrants and 71% of … EU8 immigrants are from Poland. This chapter presents new evidence on the impact of immigrant flow from EU8 countries on … young, and they are less educated compared to previous immigrant groups. We also find that recent EU8 immigrants are more …
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Returns for entrepreneurs vs. employees: the effect of education and personal control on the relative performance of entrepreneurs vs. wage employees
van Praag, C. Mirjam; van Witteloostuijn, Arjen; van … - 2009
spells in entrepreneurship versus wage employment, thereby accounting for selectivity into entrepreneurial positions based on …
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Immigrant wages in the Spanish labour market: does the origin of human capital matter?
Sanromá, Esteban; Ramos, Raúl; Simón, Hipólito - 2009
The aim of this paper is to analyse the role played by the different components of human capital in the wage determination of recent immigrants within the Spanish labour market. Using microdata from the Encuesta Nacional de Inmigrantes 2007, the paper examines returns to human capital of...
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Looking beyond the bridge: How temporary agency employment affects labor market outcomes
Jahn, Elke J.; Rosholm, Michael - 2010
We perform a comprehensive analysis of the stepping-stone effect of temporary agency employment on unemployed workers. Using the timing-of-events approach, we not only investigate whether agency employment is a bridge into regular employment but also analyze its effect on post-unemployment wages...
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Intergenerational Progress of Mexican-Origin Workers in the U.S. Labor Market
Trejo, Stephen J. - 2001
Using unique Current Population Survey data from November 1979 and 1989, this paper compares the wage structure across generations of Mexican-origin men. I find that the sizable earnings advantage U.S.-born Mexican Americans enjoy over Mexican immigrants arises not just from intergenerational...
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The Association between Immigration and Labor Market Outcomes in the United States
Basso, Gaetano; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
popular shift-share instrument. One fact emerging from all the specifications is that the net growth of immigrant labor has a …
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The Impact of Mass Migration of Syrians on the Turkish Labor Market
Aksu, Ege; Erzan, Refik; Kirdar, Murat G. - 2018
We estimate the effects of the arrival of 2.5 million Syrian migrants in Turkey by the end of 2015 on the labor market outcomes of natives, using a difference-in-differences IV methodology. We show that relaxing the common-trend assumption of this methodology - unlike recent papers in the same...
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Labour Immigration and Union Strength
Finseraas, Henning; Roed, Marianne; Schone, Pal - 2018
unions. The challenge will be particularly severe if immigrant competition affects natives' propensity to unionize. We … increase in labour migration to the construction sector. Licensing demands, however, protected some workers from immigrant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931688