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the German labor market since EU enlargement. Unlike other EU countries, Germany has not immediately opened up its labor … immigrants from outside of Europe for low-skilled jobs instead of competing with German natives. While Germany needs high … underline the importance of more open immigration policies targeting high-skilled immigrants. The current policy not only cannot …
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the German labor market since EU enlargement. Unlike other EU countries, Germany has not immediately opened up its labor … immigrants from outside of Europe for low-skilled jobs instead of competing with German natives. While Germany needs high … underline the importance of more open immigration policies targeting high-skilled immigrants. The current policy not only cannot …
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We investigate the labor market effects of immigration in Denmark, Germany and the UK, three countries which are … shocks, and, hence, the labor market effects of immigration. We employ a wage-setting approach which assumes that wages … compared to Germany and, in particular, Denmark. As a consequence, immigration has a much larger effect on the unemployment …
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This paper examines whether immigrants increase the likelihood of unemployment among native-born workers in the European Union. Earlier papers measure the presence of immigrants in the local labor market by computing the share of the foreigners in specific regions. This paper, instead, utilizes...
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. Accounting for sample selectivity, the paper provides regressions explaining reservation wages, and actual earnings for paid … earnings differentials from working and reservation wages and for self-employment and paid-employment earnings matter much …, although only among a number of other determinants. For Germany, legal status at entry is important; former refugees and those …
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This paper analyses the impact of a change in Australia's immigration policy, introduced in the mid-1990s, on migrants …
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of an immobile labour force and the eurosklerosis phenomenon. In such a situation, an economically motivated immigration …
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Germany and Canada stand at polar ends of the scientific debate over language integration and ascension to citizenship … immigration act that will presumably come into effect on January 1, 2003, does not only concentrate on control aspects but also … aims at language as a criterion for legal immigration. Canada, in effect, does not base entry or citizenship on knowledge …
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explain the null or small impacts of immigration on native employment and wages. Instead, immigration appears to have affected …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 …
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The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public … in the immigration flows from different countries, sampling error, and the effects of emigration – is fundamentally …
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