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Estimating the impact of immigration on wages in Ireland
Barrett, Alan; Bergin, Adele; Kelly, Elish - 2009
We estimate the impact of immigration on the wages of natives in Ireland applying the technique proposed by Borjas … suggest that care should be exercised when applying this method as inaccurate impressions of the impact of immigration on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271579
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Meta-analysis of empirical evidence on the labour market impacts of immigration
Longhi, Simonetta; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2008
capacity' of the labour market, and fuelled extensive empirical research in countries that attract migrants. In previous papers … we synthesized the conclusions of this empirical literature by means of meta-analyses of the impact of immigration on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268868
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Mexican immigrants, the labor market and the current population survey: seasonality effects, framing effects, and sensitivity of results
Lozano, Fernando Antonio; Sorensen, Todd A. - 2008
produce seasonality effects that differentially affect the composition of recent and earlier migrants, thereby changing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276777
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A Macroeconomic Experiment in Mass Immigration
Hercowitz, Zvi; Yashiv, Eran - 2002
This paper studies the effects of mass immigration from the former USSR to Israel in the 1990s on the employment of the … native employment and the relative price of domestic goods – is estimated, finding negative effects of immigration on native … employment a year after arrival. The delay in the effect is attributed to a positive impact of immigration on the excess demand …
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Do immigrants take the jobs of native workers?
Malchow-Møller, Nikolaj; Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, … - 2009
In this paper, we focus on the short-run adjustments taking place at the workplace level when immigrants are employed. Specifically, we analyse whether individual native workers are replaced or displaced by the employment of immigrants within the same narrowly defined occupations at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271242
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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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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262373
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The impact of immigration on the well-being of natives
Akay, Alpaslan; Constant, Amelie F.; Giulietti, Corrado - 2012
This paper examines the effect of immigration directly on the overall utility of natives. To the best of our knowledge … robust, positive effect of immigration on natives' well-being. The presence of confounding local labour market … characteristics has a negligible impact on the estimates. Furthermore, we find substantial evidence that the effect of immigration on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287659
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Do non-economic quality of life factors drive immigration?
Lewer, Joshua J.; Pacheco, Gail; Rossouw, Stephanié - 2009
This paper contributes to the immigration literature by generating two unique non-economic quality of life (QOL … with other independent welfare measures to an extended gravity model of immigration for 16 OECD destination countries from … 1991 to 2000 suggests an insignificant role for QOL in the immigration process. The panel results suggest that other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271304
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Immigration, growth and unemployment: Panel VAR evidence from OECD countries
Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2012
This paper examines empirically the interaction between immigration and host country economic conditions. We employ …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289971