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Using a rich dataset of primary school students in the Netherlands, this paper investigates the heterogeneous effects of immigrant concentration in the classroom on the academic achievement of natives. To identify the treatment effect, it takes advantage of some features of the Dutch primary...
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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 examines the effects of several macroeconomic variables such as GDP, imports, unemployment, immigration and … emigration on the real wages and salaries of German laborers. Annual data for 49 years has been used to estimate twelve different … regressions, trying to capture the effect of these variables on the real wages and salaries in Germany while considering the …
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preventing immigration is 3.2% higher wages, but the largest loss is 0.3% lower wages. Crowding of immigrants into select …/training and communication skills. Counterfactual estimates of the wage impacts of immigration are skewed: the largest gain from …
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concordance. We apply this descriptive measure by exploring the relationship between wages and labour productivity in Slovenia for … the period 1998–2007. We are able to confirm the hypothesis of high concordance between wages and labour productivity …, which indicates a stimulative role of wages in production of market traded goods and services. …
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This paper explores the impact of the illegal immigration on the U.S. economy in a context where the immigration … throughout the country. There are different opinions about the high number of immigrants on U.S. soil, immigration being …
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This thesis consists of three essays on the economic and cultural integration of migrants in Switzerland, reverse causation between these two dimensions of the integration process, and the role of host society culture. Whereas each dimension is usually examined separately, this study proposes a...
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The Harris-Todaro hypothesis replaces the equality of wages by the equality of ‘expected’ wages as the basic … unemployment when a mechanism for the determination of urban wages is specified. This article reviews work in which the Harris …
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wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …
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along with the US for the period 1980-2010. Apart from the contribution of productivity to wages, we take into account the … resulting from a wage bargaining model. We further study the downward rigidities of wages in depth. The findings show that in … steer wages, policy makers can effectively use the replacement rate. …
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