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An influential strand of research has tested for the effects of immigration on natives' wages and employment using … reinforces the existing consensus that the impact of immigration on average native-born workers is small, and fails to …
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Does interacting product and labor market regulation alter the impact of immigration on wages of competing native … reunification and allowing for endogenous immigration, we compare native wage reactions across different segments of the West German … labor market: one segment without product and labor market regulation, to which standard immigration models best apply, one …
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We exploit the construction of the Öresund bridge, which connects a medium-sized city in Sweden to the capital of Denmark, to study the labor market effects of gaining access to a larger labor market. Using unique cross-country matched registry data that allow us to follow individuals across...
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We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …
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In this paper we present important correlations between immigration and labor market outcomes of native workers in the … zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States – looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
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research on immigration, political behaviour and collective action. …
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In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated … level is called the ?immigration surplus?, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the … the immigration surplus. …
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The existing literature on immigrant assimilation has highlighted the imperfect portability of human capital acquired by immigrants in their country of origin (Chiswick, 1978; Friedberg, 2000). This would explain the low levels of assimilation upon arrival in the new country, as well as the wide...
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countries and in Spain. It also examines the impact on wages of the legal status. The evidence shows that returns to host …
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