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Measuring Immigration's Effects on Labor Demand: A Reexamination of the Mariel Boatlift
Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Lewer, Joshua J.; Berg, Hendrik F. … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
It is now well known that exogenous immigration shocks tend to have benign effects on native employment outcomes … the effects of an immigration shock on labor demand by testing a general equilibrium model in which imperfectly … substitutable native and immigrant workers spend their wages on a locally produced good. The shock induces three responses: (i) a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703352
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Open Labor Markets and Firms’ Substitution between Training Apprentices and Hiring Workers
Aepli, Manuel; Kuhn, Andreas - 2019
In this paper, we study whether Swiss employers substitute between training apprentices and hiring cross-border workers. Because both training apprentices and hiring skilled workers are costly for firms, we hypothesize that (easier) access to cross-border workers will lead some employers to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059209
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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self- Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Lofstrom, Magnus - 1999
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262281
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Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States
Lofstrom, Magnus - 2000
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262383
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Is the minimum wage a pull factor for immigrants?
Giulietti, Corrado - 2010
This paper studies the impact of the minimum wage on immigration. A framework is presented in which inflows of … using the fraction of affected workers as the instrumental variable for the growth of expected wages. The findings show that … States in which the growth of expected wages was relatively large (around 20%) exhibit inflow rate increases that are four to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278416
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Self-Employment and Earnings among High-Skilled Immigrants in the United States
Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to analyze the labor market experience of high-skilled immigrants relative to high-skilled natives. Immigrants are found to be more likely to be working in one of the high-skilled occupations than natives, but the gap between the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822139
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Labor Market Assimilation and the Self-Employment Decision of Immigrant Entrepreneurs
Lofstrom, Magnus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999
This paper uses data from the 1980 and 1990 U.S. Censuses to study labor market assimilation of self-employed immigrants. Separate earnings functions for the self-employed and wage/salary workers are estimated. To control for endogenous sorting into the sectors, models of the self-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763871
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Is the Minimum Wage a Pull Factor for Immigrants?
Giulietti, Corrado - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper studies the impact of the minimum wage on immigration. A framework is presented in which inflows of … using the fraction of affected workers as the instrumental variable for the growth of expected wages. The findings show that … States in which the growth of expected wages was relatively large (around 20%) exhibit inflow rate increases that are four to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805624
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Self-employment of rural-to-urban migrants in China
Giulietti, Corrado; Ning, Guangjie; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
This paper focuses on the determinants of self-employment among rural to urban migrants in China. Two self-selection mechanisms are analysed: the first relates to the manner in which migrants choose self-employment or paid work based on the potential gains from either type of employment; the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278768
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Trade and Inequality in Europe and the US
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2021
The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012882490