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This paper attempts to explain national origin wage differentials in France. Our data come from a matched employer-employee wage survey performed in 2002. Business survey data are matched to many individual-level variables collected in a household survey. The sample of professionals is...
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Combining unique individual level H-1B data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and data from the …
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is reflected in immigration policies and many developed countries have created special visas and entry requirements in an …
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This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962 … immigrant share across education/experience cells and over time to identify the impact of immigration. In the Borjas (2003 …) specification, we find that a 10% increase in immigration increases native wages by 3%. However, as the number of immigrants and the …
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Sweden has made its labour market more open for labour immigration since the mid1990s: becoming member of the common … immigration. The labour immigration expanded for example after the enlargement in 2004 but not so much as in for example the … United Kingdom and Ireland. Other forms of immigration have been more important. On the other hand, the migration has been …
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Exploiting a large French panel for 1976-2007, we examine the impact of low-educated immigration on the labour market … immigration. Low-educated immigration generally lowers the wages of blue-collar workers, but its impact is heterogeneous across …
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This paper uses the American Community Survey to examine the previously overlooked fact that foreign STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) graduates have much lower self-employment rates than their non-STEM counterparts, with an unconditional difference of 3.3 percentage...
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We extend the Altonji and Card (1991) framework for analysing the impact of immigrants on natives? wages from two to three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very small effects on natives? wages and no dominant robust...
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There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. However, in some countries where labor markets...
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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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