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the selection patterns, we nonparametrically estimate the counterfactual wages that the return migrants would have … that the wages of return migrants are larger than those that the migrants would have obtained had they not migrated. …
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This paper examines the wage and job satisfaction effects of over-education and overskilling among migrants graduating from EU-15 based universities in 2005. Female migrants with shorter durations of domicile were found to have a higher likelihood of overskilling. Newly arrived migrants incurred...
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The utilization and reward of the human capital of immigrants in the labor market of the host country has been studied extensively. Using Swedish register data from 2001 - 2008, we extend the immigrant educational mismatch literature by analyzing incidence, wage effects and state dependence in...
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This paper investigates the impact of cultural diversity on labour market outcomes, particularly on wages across … effects. Our findings indicate that the current level of cultural diversity positively affected current regional weekly wages … the literature where some studies report that cultural diversity increases wages across time while others do not. …
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socioeconomic mobility for many-wages of African-American workers which have trended upward in the 1960s and 1970s started stalling … questioned whether unfavorable trends in African-American wages and employment outcomes are tied to Mexican immigration. This … paper examines the effect of Mexican immigrants on wages for African-Americans using various estimation methods and finds …
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …
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employment and wages of the local population. I show that male immigrants were fully integrated into the labor market, while … population's employment but not on wages. The initial displacement effects are particularly large for men, but they disappear …
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aggregate Northern labor market to provide new evidence on the effects of the Great Migration on wages in the North, redoubling … the evidence that it caused large declines in wages for blacks, with little effect for whites. The agreement between my … local and aggregate wage effect estimates has implications for our general understanding of how immigration and wages are …
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Recent changes to immigration selection policies favor skilled workers with prior work experience in the immigrant host country. Using unique administrative tax data for Canada, we estimate earnings equations to quantify the difference in earnings of immigrants with prior Canadian experience...
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