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Immigration in the EU : an empirical analysis of the impact of immigration on the German labor market
DeVeaux, Frederick - 2014
This paper analyzes the impact of immigration on Germany's labor market in the context of the recent 2004 and 2007 EU enlargements. In order to measure the effect of immigration supply shocks on individuals' labor outcomes, this paper uses economist George Borjas's "Skill-Group" approach, which...
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The "migrant in the market" : migration and care work across six liberal welfare regimes
Lightman, Naomi - 2016
This article disaggregates high and low status care work, based on the degree of "social closure" in a given caring occupation, across six liberal welfare regimes: Australia, Canada, Ireland, Israel, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Bolstering the argument that there is a "migrant in...
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Immigrant misallocation
Birinci, Serdar; Leibovici, Fernando; See, Kurt - 2021
We quantify the barriers that impede the integration of immigrants into foreign labor markets and investigate their aggregate implications. We develop a model of occupational choice with natives and immigrants of multiple types whose decisions are subject to wedges which distort their allocation...
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Comparing the immigrant-native pay gap : a novel evidence from home and host countries
Cupák, Andrej; Ciaian, Pavel; Kancs, D'Artis - 2021
We estimate wage differentials between foreign- and native-born workers across developed and developing economies. We leverage internationally harmonised microdata covering 21 countries, 20 years and 1.5 million individuals and employ counterfactual decomposition techniques. We find that...
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Migration and inequalities around the Mediterranean Sea
Nilsson, Björn; Ramadan, Racha - 2020
This paper aims to quantify the effects from migration on net income distributions, disentangling the roles played by factor reallocation and remittances, and focusing on two (primarily) destination countries (Spain and Italy) and two (primarily) origin countries (Jordan and Iraq). Using LIS-ERF...
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Does immigration affect native's labor market outcomes in Germany?
Tas, Dilan; Kastrat, Merima - 2019
Germany is one of the several countries in Europe that have opened its borders to immigrants for many years. The admission of immigrants into Germany has contributed to the country being the second largest immigration destination in the world, and this has resulted in both negative and positive...
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The effect of attitudes toward migrants on migrant skill composition
Avdiu, Besart - 2017
I investigate the effect of attitudes toward migrants on the average skill composition of immigrants in destination countries. A model is presented showing that negative attitudes toward migrants in general can reduce the average skill composition. The intuition for the result is that the highly...
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Wage differentials between immigrants and native workers in the United States
Chaikwaeng, Morakot - 2017
The dissertation aims to analyse the wage gaps between native workers and immigrants in the United States in the period of 1994, 2000, 2004, 2007, 2010 and 2013. The methodology used are Ordinary Least Square (OLS) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition. The results found that immigrants earn less...
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A care convergence? : quantifying wage disparities for migrant care workers across three welfare regimes
Lightman, Naomi - 2018
Social policy literature is divided on the ongoing relevance of welfare regime typologies given considerable heterogeneity within as well as between categories. Using 2010 Luxembourg Income Study data, this study disaggregates high and low status paid care work, quantifying any associate wage...
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Household's expenditure in health and education : effects on poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle income countries : India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation a...
Ait Mansour, Hicham - 2016
There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure … poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …
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