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In this paper, we investigate how changes in the skill mix of local labor supply are absorbed by the economy. We distinguish between three adjustment mechanisms: through factor prices, through an expansion in the size of those production units that use the more abundant skill group more...
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This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ …
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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...
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In recent years, Spain has received unprecedented immigration flows. Between 2001 and 2006 the fraction of the … (relative to population), immigration increased the high school dropout population by 24%, while only increasing the number of … the relative supply of low educated (foreign-born) workers. We identify the exogenous supply shock using historical …
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three labour types and estimate reduced form wage equations for The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Norway. We find very …
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inflation/unemployment responses to money growth shocks. SVAR (structural vector autoregression) and GMM (generalised method of …
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Ireland than would otherwise have been the case as a result of the labour supply increase brought about by this immigration …
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This paper investigates the effects of Spain's large recent immigration wave on the labor supply of highly skilled … native women. We hypothesize that female immigration led to an increase in the supply of affordable household services, such … family responsibilities. Our evidence indicates that over the last decade immigration led to an important expansion in the …
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In this paper we compare estimates of immigrants' labor supply assimilation profiles using the Current Population Survey Annual Demographic Files (March ADS) and the Current Population Survey Outgoing Rotation Groups (ORGs). We use a measure that is seemingly consistent across both surveys:...
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is whether such equations are identified. To check identification requires specifying the process for the forcing … is estimated by GMM, relying on statistical criteria to choose instruments. This may result in failure of identification …
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