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use instrumental variable (IV) techniques to deal with the potential endogeneity of immigration. Results from alternative …. Unlike conventional approaches, the present study uses macro data to examine the response of wages to immigration flows. We … skilled immigrants exerts discernible adverse consequences on the wage structure in Australia. …
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markets, either in cross-city wage differentials or within-city rent gradients. Amenities are shown to be generally priced in …
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) persistent racial wage and employment effects between both native and immigrant African Americans and whites, 2) limited … ethnicity effects among African Americans, 3) diverse employment and wage effects among native and immigrant African Americans …, 4) intra-racial wage penalties (premiums) for immigrant (native) African Americans, and 5) evidence of relatively higher …
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This note analyzes income differences between foreigners and natives in Germany. Using social survey data (ALLBUS) for 2012, I use Mincer style quantile regressions and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions to estimate the size of the income differential. People not born in Germany, have an income lose...
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This paper studies the effects of immigration on the wages of Argentinean native workers over the period 1993-2012. I …. Immigration from these six countries accounts for 95% of the total immigration from Latin American countries. The empirical … of heterogeneous impact by country of origin. Overall, findings show a significant negative impact of immigration on …
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This paper investigates the potential problem of ‘pseudo-exogenous’ instruments in regression models. We show that the performance of Hausman test is deteriorated when the instruments are asymptotically exogenous but endogenous in finite samples, through Monte Carlo simulations.
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The paper assesses the causal relationship between formal volunteering and individual health. The econometric analysis employs data provided by the Income and Living Conditions Survey for the United Kingdom carried out by the European Union’s Statistics (UK-SILC) in 2006. Based on 2SLS,...
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This paper explores the validity of the two-stage estimation procedure for sparse linear models in high-dimensional settings with possibly many endogenous regressors. In particular, the number of endogenous regressors in the main equation and the instruments in the first-stage equations can grow...
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This paper analyzes what can be learned about the value of a statistical life (VSL) using the hedonic wage model. The … time series variation of cross sectional estimates, along with the endogeneity of risk choices and the absence of adequate …
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relative wage. The estimated model shows that spatial equilibrium related to net migration is negative affected by wages and …
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