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While most studies of the decision to immigrate focus on the absolute income differences between countries, we argue that relative change in purchasing power or status, as captured by an individual’s ranking in the wage distribution, may also be important. This will in turn be influenced by...
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addressed the questions whether and how immigration affects native workers’ labour market outcomes. In particular, it discusses …: the distinction between the displacement, productivity and amenity effects of immigration; the issues that arise in using … wage changes to identify those effects; and the problem of assessing a causal link from immigration to natives’ labour …
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Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify...
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Since changes in trade openness are typically confounded with other factors, it has been difficult to identify the labor market consequences of increased international trade. The advent of the United States Interstate Highway System provides a unique policy experiment, which I use to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745883
A central concern about immigration is the integration into the labour market, not only of the first generation, but …
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There is widespread concern currently that some ethnic minority communities within Britain, especially Muslim, are not following the stereotypical immigrant path of economic and cultural assimilation into British society. Indeed, many seem to have the impression that differences between Muslims...
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). This might have consequences for immigration policy – how many immigrants to allow into a country and from what cultural …
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supply conditions. Previous research on the effect of immigration on local house prices has argued that the impact of … apply it to Spanish data during the period 2002-2010 and I show that overlooking the impact of immigration on native …
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Using a large administrative French panel data set for 1976-2007, we examine how low- educated immigration affects the …-educated immigrants. We first show that larger immigration inflows into locations are accompanied by larger outflows of negatively … substantial evidence that immigration lowers the median annual wages of natives. The estimated negative effects are also much …
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. As distinct from the labor-supply focus of much of the economics of immigration, this paper reviews work that examines …
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