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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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This paper re-examines the role of labor-market competition as a determinant of attitudes toward immigration. We claim two main contributions. First, we use more sophisticated measures of the degree of exposure to competition from immigrants than previously done. Specifically, we focus on the...
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Learning about the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives is a topic of major concern for immigrant-receiving countries. There exists an extensive literature evaluating the impact of immigration on the employment and wages of natives in the U.S. Yet, despite the...
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Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe … Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a careful description of the main characteristics of migration flows … countries, and attempt to reconcile the features of migration flows with our predictions for earnings by destination. We find …
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This paper empirically analyzes both economic and non-economic determinants of attitudes toward immigrants, within and across countries. The two individual-level survey data sets used, covering a wide range of developed and developing countries, make it possible to test for interactive effects...
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The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004. Following enlargement, the net inflow of EU8 immigrants has become 2.5 times larger than the four-year period before enlargement. Poles constitute the largest immigrant group...
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-country migration policies across Europe and (ii) that the European Union needs to become an active player on the international labour …
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This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are offered with findings for the US. The paper uses the Overeducation/Required...
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This paper examines whether the results of the earnings equation developed in the overeducation/required eduation/under-education (ORU) literature are sensitive to whether the usual or reference levels of education are measured using the Realized Matches or Worker Self-Assessment methods. The...
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The purpose of this paper is to review what has been learnt about Irish migration from the work of social scientists …-scale outflows. While some have argued that the low level of development was partly a consequence of emigration, other work has shown … that emigration helped to improve Irish living standards. I end with the observation that the research agenda is now …
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