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In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … graduates, relative to all other individuals, we find that net migration flows are college-intensive, relative to the population … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the …
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Ireland, along with Sweden and the UK, allowed full access to its labour market to the citizens of the accession countries when the EU enlarged in May 2004. Given the limited number of countries that opened up and the rapid pace of economic growth in Ireland around 2004, a significant inflow was...
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few studies of the impact of this South-South migration. In this paper, we examine the impact of migration from one … the hypothesis that Nicaraguan migration to Costa Rica was an important factor contributing to falling earnings, increased …
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migration experience of Switzerland. The analysis centres around two main issues: the economic effects of migration and the … the Swiss migration policy, immigrants tend to have a negative impact on the Swiss economy. Second, the analysis of the …-European countries. On the basis of the empirical analysis, this study finally outlines some reform options for the Swiss migration …
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This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to the … substitute consumption intertemporally. However, the empirical results from immigrants in Germany reveal that optimal migration … shorter migration duration than immigrants from wealthier source countries. The empirical results also reveal that saving rate …
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Based on a wage curve approach we examine the labor market effects of migration in Germany. The wage curve relies on … wage and employment effects of migration simultaneously in a general equilibrium framework. For the empirical analysis we … vocational degree. The wage and employment effects of migration are moderate: a 1 percent increase in the German labor force …
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Increasing earnings inequality has been an important feature of the US and UK labour markets in recent years. The increase appears to be related to an increased demand for skilled labour and an increase in the returns to education. In this paper we examine what has happened to earnings...
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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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We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas (2003). Under this method, the labour market is divided into a number of skill cells, where the cells are defined by groups with similar levels of experience and education (or...
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Italy, a country with large internal and international migration. This comparison, not yet exploited, yields understanding … migration and unobserved heterogeneity. The three groups of workers start their careers at the same wage level but, as …
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